The Kanagawa Prefectural University of Health and Welfare Graduate School of Health Innovation conducts research activities to develop human resources capable of innovating social systems and technologies based on the ME-BYO concept and to realize a healthy and long-lived society.In addition, we have concluded a business alliance with READYFOR Co., Ltd., which operates Japan's first and largest crowdfunding service, and are promoting research activities through crowdfunding support for researchers.

　A research group headed by Professor Shinichi Tokuno is working on the development of technology to identify diseases from voices. We aim to develop technology to support earlier.

　The research group conducted a study to demonstrate the hypothesis that ``the cries (crying style) of babies on the autism spectrum are phonetically different from those of non-autistic babies.'' Crying and sleep data are collected from 1 children aged 6 year and 5,000 months and over who use assistive devices, and the differences between children with autism and normal children are found by analyzing them.In addition, we will conduct a questionnaire for guardians and verify the relationship with the analysis data.

　This time, in addition to securing research funds to hire human resources who can analyze the voice of babies, we will challenge crowdfunding with "READYFOR" for the purpose of widely disseminating the project and spreading understanding of the autism spectrum. .Research on baby cries is a big step toward applying the viewpoint of "sound data x medical care" to "pediatric medical care for infants."The target amount is 700 million yen (AllorNothing format*).The application period is 2022 days from October 10, 25 to 12:23 on Friday, December 23, 59.

*The AllorNothing format is a mechanism in which the performer can receive donations only when the total amount of donations collected during the period reaches the target amount.

Reference: [READYFOR] Research on early detection of autism spectrum from cries and sleep of babies