Music Management

We plan to use music for two main purposes:

• Pepper can play music for the PwD if they ask to.
  This can help them release pressure, feel better, and relax. This is part of the emotional support provided by Pepper.
  However, music does not act as a placeholder or a replacement for other activities. If the PwD does an activity they enjoy, the relaxing and mood effects can be as strong as those implied by music. For this reason, the main focus is still to allow the person to perform activities thanks to the task breakdown. Music is just an extra feature in that case.

• Pepper would play music at the beginning of an activity, to prepare the patient psychologically to do the activity.
  It is like a gentle reminder in case of startling the PwD when Pepper suddenly starts to talk.