Accessible Instruments in the Wild

Harrison, Jacob; Chamberlain, Alan; McPherson, Andrew

doi:10.1145/3290607.3313037

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“…These music instruments evolved into IoT devices that provide networking and computation capabilities. These new capabilities can be leveraged to broaden further the artists' expressiveness [7,13], enhance teaching scenarios [5,6], support musicians with disabilities [2], allow remote collaboration of musicians, and even create entirely new musical instruments, such as synthesizers invented in the late 1930s.…”

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Intelligent Music Interfaces: When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments

Deja

Eska

Shrestha

et al. 2023

Augmented Humans Conference

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The interactive augmentation of musical instruments to foster self-expressiveness and learning has a rich history. Over the past decades, the incorporation of interactive technologies into musical instruments emerged into a new research field requiring strong collaboration between different disciplines. The workshop "Intelligent Music Interfaces" consequently covers a wide range of musical research subjects and directions, including (a) current challenges in musical learning, (b) prototyping for improvements, (c) new means of musical expression, and (d) evaluation of the solutions. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Interactive systems and tools; Interaction techniques; Interaction devices.

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Intelligent Music Interfaces: When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments

Deja

Eska

Shrestha

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Augmented Humans Conference

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“…This is the case with Drake Music. Some examples of their creations include The Kellycaster , a bespoke type of guitar co-designed by John Kelly, a disabled musician who has a selfdescribed "punk at heart" approach to music (Harrison et al, 2019), and Charles Matthews. Another example of an interface that has been used for AMIs is that of the MI.Mu Gloves , an interface designed to play a sophisticated version of an air guitar, air synth and air drums.…”

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Designing accessible musical instruments by addressing musician-instrument relationships

McMillan

Morreale

2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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This article explores the concept of intimacy in the relationship between a musician and their instrument, specifically in the context of designing digital and accessible musical interfaces (DMI/AMI) with disabled musicians. We argue that current DMI/AMI design frameworks are lacking in their consideration of this relationship and that this deficiency can prevent designers from understanding the specific needs and desires of disabled musicians. The paper presents an autoethnographic study of the lived experience of the first author, a disabled musician, to provide insight into the evolution of his musician-instrument relationships and his definition of “success” in this context. The authors propose that incorporating these types of lived experiences into the AMI design process, and considering cultural probes or provocations related to phenomenological experiences and characteristics that contribute to a successful musician-instrument relationship, could lead to more effective and tailored DMI/AMI designs with disabled musicians.

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“…In our case, we were interested in the effects of the cultural associations that come with an instrument." [7]. Thus, the development of an accessibly-engineered instrument provides more than the ability to play music that it may supply to a user, but the cultural support and encouragement of disabled representation in music performance that these devices may cultivate, to see an eventual increase in the involvement of disabled musicians in professional music spaces.…”

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Looking into the Design of Accessible Musical Instruments for Musicians with Physical Disabilities

Fitzgerald,

Ehsan

2023 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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As an educator at heart, she has over 12 years of experience working with pre-college students to learn and engage in engineering. She has designed and developed several engineering learning opportunities/resources for in-school and out-of-school settings. At The Hill school, she has been developing integrated and multidisciplinary engineering and computer science programs and training teachers. She has over 7 years experience of conducting research in pre-college engineering education research, with over 50 publications and presentations. Her research focus includes exploring the engineering learning of children, including those on the autism spectrum, and ways to make connections between in-school engineering learning and out-of-school learning. Her research has been recognized several times through dissertation fellowship and Outstanding Research Award from Purdue university and national awards from American Society for Engineering Education and International Society of Teacher Education. She is also the founder of Sunny Skies Academy, where she provides educational services to under-resourced communities in the US and abroad.

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Accessible Instruments in the Wild

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Intelligent Music Interfaces: When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments

Intelligent Music Interfaces: When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments

Designing accessible musical instruments by addressing musician-instrument relationships

Looking into the Design of Accessible Musical Instruments for Musicians with Physical Disabilities

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