Personalized Music Recommendation for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder

The project "ACCESS: Accessibility to Clinical Care for People with ASD through Anxiety Management Using Personalized Applications and IoT" aims to develop innovative technologies to manage anxiety in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) when they undergo dental and otolaryngology treatments. The premises of this project are the potential of multimedia content to help people with ASD relax when exposed to stressful conditions in healthcare. The result will be an app that personalizes the selection of music tracks and videos to be played before and during the treatment to help the patient distract and cope with stressful conditions that might cause anxiety. For this purpose, the app will receive information about the patient’s arousal state collected by physical sensors and/or the clinical staff. The app will use this data to personalize the selection of multimedia content based on the patient’s preferences, arousal level, and level of noise around her or him.