Artcare

Many projects and studies in the evolving fields of art and health care have been published in the last years, for the most part they highlight and show the beneficial effects of art and health care on patients, artists and caregivers, as well as on the entire population due to potential cost savings. This book is about the manifold opportunities and benefits of the application of interactive art in health care environments, it describes how interactive art can become a remarkable extension to classical art and health approaches. Relevant interdisciplinary fields, including device art, robotics or music therapy, provide new opportunities for artists as well as for care givers.