How Blind and Visually Impaired Composers, Producers, and Songwriters Leverage and Adapt Music Technology

Payne, William; Xu, Alex Yixuan; Ahmed, Fabiha; Ye, Lisa; Hurst, Amy

doi:10.1145/3373625.3417002

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“…Some of these adapted instruments can serve as facilitators of interaction in different contexts with children, youth and/or adults with neurological limitations [28,[30][31][32], others are musical interfaces that can assist, for example, in the interaction with users with autism spectrum disorders [17][18][19][29][30][31], others constitute musical technologies for children, young people and adults with hearing impairment [12,[17][18][19] or blindness and/or visual impairment [17][18][19]27]. Furthermore, a wide variety of interfaces can be successfully created to collaborate with the development of personalised instruments, such as some accessible instruments, technologically designed to be similar to traditional instruments [17][18][19][20][21].…”

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Accessible Music for Everyone: Discovering Resources

Moreno

Ana²

2021

Perspectives and Trends in Education and Technology

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The present study was triggered by the need to find technological solutions to promote the inclusion of a child with cerebral palsy in the Arts Education Programmes of Music in Portugal. With this purpose, a Ph.D. student, together with an ICT Resources Center, conducted an exploratory study, which included a systematic review of literature, between the years 2017 and 2020, with the keyword "accessible digital musical instruments" in different databases. A search on Google search engine was also performed, looking for accessible music apps and online music games available on the Web. As a result, a set of accessible digital musical instruments, music apps and online music games, that can be used to facilitate the access of children and young people with special needs to the teaching and learning of music, is presented. In the conclusions, reference is made to the topicality of this theme, the expensive cost and lack of access to accessible digital musical instruments that still exists, the need for further studies on this theme, and the importance of training those involved in the use of these resources, thus promoting "music for all".

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Accessible Music for Everyone: Discovering Resources

Moreno

Ana²

2021

Perspectives and Trends in Education and Technology

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“…Most VIB sound creatives use a text-to-speech (TTS) engine called a screen reader to access their computers (Payne et al 2020). The screen reader allows someone to navigate and control a computer system using a combination of keyboard shortcuts and navigation commands and hear the visible elements of the graphical user interface (GUI) spoken aloud.…”

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Exploring the Opportunities of Haptic Technology in the Practice of Visually Impaired and Blind Sound Creatives

Harrison

Lucas

Cunningham

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Visually impaired and blind (VIB) people as a community face several access barriers when using technology. For users of specialist technology, such as digital audio workstations (DAWs), these access barriers become increasingly complex—often stemming from a vision-centric approach to user interface design. Haptic technologies may present opportunities to leverage the sense of touch to address these access barriers. In this article, we describe a participant study involving interviews with twenty VIB sound creatives who work with DAWs. Through a combination of semi-structured interviews and a thematic analysis of the interview data, we identify key issues relating to haptic audio and accessibility from the perspective of VIB sound creatives. We introduce the technical and practical barriers that VIB sound creatives encounter, which haptic technology may be capable of addressing. We also discuss the social and cultural aspects contributing to VIB people’s uptake of new technology and access to the music technology industry.

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“…The previous studies aimed at supporting the visually impaired are diverse and include research on reading and writing [3,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14], which are difficult for the visually impaired, as well as on various activities such as supporting visually impaired children to play [5], enjoy soccer games [15], record with a camera [16], create music [17], play games [18], and use virtual reality (VR) systems [19][20][21].…”

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Inaccessibility maps to support sighted people using visually impaired people’s white cane data

Hasegawa,

Ichino

2023

TAD

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BACKGROUND: Visually impaired people have been considered only as “receivers” of support; however, few studies have considered them as “givers” of support to sighted people. OBJECTIVE: To support the walking of sighted people using information available specifically to the visually impaired. METHODS: Utilizing white cane usage data of visually impaired people to create inaccessibility maps for sighted people. RESULTS: A user study conducted with elderly people and their stakeholders, who had high accessibility needs found that the maps were generally useful as long as they were within the user’s area of interest. CONCLUSIONS: Although the proposed method should be practically beneficial to users, the information detected by the system should be expanded from white cane use data, its accuracy, and more data collected from visually impaired people.

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How Blind and Visually Impaired Composers, Producers, and Songwriters Leverage and Adapt Music Technology

Cited by 30 publications

References 39 publications

Accessible Music for Everyone: Discovering Resources

Accessible Music for Everyone: Discovering Resources

Exploring the Opportunities of Haptic Technology in the Practice of Visually Impaired and Blind Sound Creatives

Inaccessibility maps to support sighted people using visually impaired people’s white cane data

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