Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
30 results found tagged music accessibility.
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Turning the Knobs of Musical Emotion: Designing Emotion-Oriented Audio Control Interface for Cochlear Implant Users
Kim, Song, and Lee (KAIST) tackle a persistent but under-designed problem in hearing accessibility: cochlear implant (CI) users can hear music but receive it in a spectrally coarse, pitch-degraded form that blunts emotional perception. Rather than pu…
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From Daily Song to Daily Self: Supporting Emotional Growth of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals through Generative AI Songwriting
This CHI 2026 paper introduces SoulNote, a generative-AI songwriting system designed to support sustained emotional growth for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) individuals through music-based journaling. The authors argue that prior music-GenAI accessi…
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FAME: Exploring Expressive Facial Avatars for Lyrical and Non-Lyrical Music Visualization for d/Deaf Individuals
This CHI 2026 paper investigates whether expressive facial avatars can carry the emotional and structural richness of music — rhythm, pitch, melody, lyrics, and emotion — to d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) audiences in ways that captions and abstrac…
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μCap: Instrumental Music Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
Ahn and colleagues introduce μCap (Music Captions), an automatic captioning system that makes instrumental music accessible to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences by producing time-aligned, non-lexical textual renderings — syllable-like strings …
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Understanding Emotion through Multimedia: Comparison between Hearing-Impaired People and People with Hearing Abilities
This paper investigates how hearing-impaired and normal-hearing people recognise emotions conveyed through drum performances and accompanying visual stimuli. The research is part of a larger project to build a "performance enhancement machine" (PEM) …
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"Composability": Widening Participation in Music Making for People with Disabilities via Music Software and Controller Solutions
This paper from the Drake Music Project and University of York discusses enabling visually impaired and physically disabled people to compose and perform music through adapted software and controller solutions. The Drake Music Project (DMP), a UK cha…
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The Flote: An Instrument for People with Limited Mobility
This paper introduces the Flote, a digital wind instrument designed to enable people with limited mobility to play music using only head movement and breath control. Developed at Stanford University through a collaboration between computer science an…
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Rock Vibe: Rock Band® Computer Games for People with No or Limited Vision
This paper presents Rock Vibe, a modification of the commercial Rock Band® video game that replaces visual cues with haptic vibrations and audio feedback to enable people with no or limited vision to play the drumming component. The system uses an Ar…
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Toward Accessible Technology for Music Composers and Producers with Motor Disabilities
This short paper reports on an initial user study with three motor-impaired musicians to identify challenges and research opportunities in making professional music software accessible. Modern music score-writing tools (Sibelius, Finale) and producti…
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Collaborative Music Application for Visually Impaired People with Tangible Objects on Table
This short paper presents a collaborative music composition application designed to enable visually impaired and sighted people to work together on equal ground. The system uses a tabletop tangible interface inspired by Reactable, where physical obje…