The use of sonification for physiotherapy in human movement tasks: A scoping review

A Technical Framework for Musical Biofeedback in Stroke Rehabilitation

“…In future studies, we will place greater focus on posing more neutral-connotation, open-ended, and scale-based questions in robust blinded setups. Moreover, the technical framework has not undergone any empirical evaluation in a rehabilitative setting, making it difficult to gauge the DMIs' true clinical utility [18], [67]. Therefore, the interview outcomes pertaining to the DMIs and MBF strategies must be interpreted with caution.…”

“…User experience can be hampered by barebones aesthetic designs [31], [53] that lack the consideration of user preferences [28], [57]. Biofeedback system customization for individual patients is an important feature [4], [18], and the extent to which extant systems allow it is unclear. Though some works mention the possibility of tailoring feedback to patients on the fly [24], [32], [58], MBF literature typically does not provide detailed system design specifications, and data mapping configurations appear arbitrary and rigid [59], difficult to alter in real time or retroactively tune [60] as part of user-centered approaches [43].…”

“…The supplied auditory information on movement execution serves as continuous or discrete feedback, which can assist in movement error correction and/or accelerate motor learning [15]- [17] depending on the precise nature of the movement-sound mapping. Recent reviews highlight the potential of ABF in rehabilitation as well as the need for more and rigorous dysfunction-and task-specific studies, while also pointing out the present general lack of a framework for sonification in physiotherapy [18]. Although relevant technical frameworks have been developed (see, e.g., [19]), most prototypes are aesthetically limited to the most basic of feedback stimuli and fail to leverage the potential benefits of more complex sonic feedback media such as music.…”

An Embodied Sonification Model for Sit-to-Stand Transfers

“…Due to the versatility of modern sound synthesis platforms, it is now possible to build flexible and complex real-time auditory displays (Supper, 2015 ; Kantan et al, 2021 ). Of particular interest is the sonification of biological signals, which has been explored for rehabilitation (Guerra et al, 2020 ; Linnhoff et al, 2020 ), diagnostics (Ballora et al, 2004 ; Danna et al, 2013 ; Gionfrida and Roginska, 2017 ; Aldana Blanco et al, 2020 ) and monitoring (Aldana Blanco et al, 2020 ). In this study, we focused on sonifying the ubiquitous movement of rising from a chair—the sit-to-stand (STS) transfer .…”

“…Movement sonification has received an increasing amount of attention in recent years and shown significant therapeutic promise (Sigrist et al, 2012 ; Dyer et al, 2015 ; Guerra et al, 2020 ; Linnhoff et al, 2020 ). This has been bolstered by advances in computing power as well as inexpensive and portable motion-sensing hardware (Ma et al, 2016 ; Kos and Umek, 2018 ), not to mention some highly refined sensor fusion algorithms (Ribeiro, 2004 ; Madgwick et al, 2011 ).…”