Harmoni: An AI-Powered Music Therapy Platform
Anusha Arora · Bellevue, Washington
F. Thomson Leighton and Bonnie Berger Family Prize for STEM Excellence ($50,000) · Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair · 2026
A portable music-therapy device that reads physiological signals from finger sensors and generates adaptive music in real time in response to them.
Reported reduced stress and anxiety in users during testing.
A closed loop — sensor to model to output and back to the person — is much harder to build than a generator that plays at you, and it is the part that makes the therapeutic claim testable.
- Finger-sensor physiological measurement
- Real-time adaptive audio generation
- Closed-loop sensing and response
- Stress and anxiety outcome measurement
- Closing the loop between sensing and output is what separates an instrument from a demo
- Interdisciplinary projects still need one measurable outcome; the sensor readings are what keep this from being a music app
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