Can learning the piano rehab partial spinal cord injury patients? | Thad Starner | TEDxPeachtree

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Google Glass Tech Lead Thad Starner's childhood interactions with residents at the nursing home where his mother served as a nurse influenced his work on developing tech for individuals with disabilities. This facinating talk explores how learning to play the piano can help partial spinal cord injury patients with rehab.
Thad Starner coined the term "augmented reality" in 1990. He is a strong advocate of continuous-access, everyday-use systems, and has worn his own customized wearable computer continuously since 1993. His work has touched on handwriting and sign-language analysis, intelligent agents and augmented realities.
He is founder and director of the Contextual Computing Group at the Georgia Institute of Technoogy's College of Computing and the technical lead for Google Glass. Thad holds multiple degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D from the MIT Media Lab.
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[@emilyburnside1159]

Hi this is really cool - could you provide any links to publications etc arising from this? Especially as to underlying neurophysiology. Thanks!

[@thadstarner4413]

Search on scholar.google.com for "mobile music touch" and "PianoTouch" for the passive learning of piano melodies. For the rehab work search "Tanya Markow" for her dissertation on smartech.gatech.edu For Caitlyn Seim's work on passive learning of Braille see www.cc.gatech.edu/~cseim6/p111-seim.pdf Thanks for the question! More cool stuff coming...

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