Towards Musical Game Therapy: A Survey on Music Therapy and Games for Health Promotion

This paper provides a survey of existing systems and discusses the purposes that music therapy and video games serve. The effects of musical games and singing on psychological and physical well-being, learning and cognitive training are discussed. According to previous research, singing, as a part of music therapy, has proved to impact stress hormones positively, and also commonly contributed to medical rehabilitation. This paper, therefore, aims to shed light on the prospects of previous studies inspiring future development of voice-input based games for music therapy and stress reduction.

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