Relaxation Aid for Intellectual Disabilities

Abstract

World Health Organization(WHO) predicts that by the end of 2020, 20% of India’s population will suffer from some form of mental illness. The person suffers from common mental illness such as experiencing stress, complexities of living and throughout frustration. The proposed project aims at decreasing mental stress and experiencing multidisciplinary sensory actions for those with intellectual disabilities(internal stress) by Snoezelen. Snoezelen is a therapy for people with psychological disabilities which are specially designed to deliver stimuli to various senses, using lighting effects, colours, sounds, smell etc. The existing system provides relaxation through color changing panel, bubble tube with four-switch with voice activation. The objectives of proposed system are to provide relaxation to stressed people by monitoring the various biosignals like blood volume pulse, electrodermal activities of skin, skin temperature and respiration rate. The controller provides a multisensory output in accordance to biosignal input until the person become stress-free. The snoezelen arrangement and stress monitoring software cordially helps to reduce the stress. It overcomes the difficulties in number of psychiatrists through relaxation by snoezelen box.