Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
30 results found tagged music accessibility.
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How Blind and Visually Impaired Composers, Producers, and Songwriters Leverage and Adapt Music Technology
This qualitative interview study explores how 11 blind and visually impaired music creators — composers, producers, and songwriters — use and adapt mainstream and assistive music technologies to achieve their creative goals. The researchers recruited…
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TIP-Toy: a tactile, open-source computational toolkit to support learning across visual abilities
This paper presents TIP-Toy (Tactile Inclusive Programming Toy), an open-source educational programming toolkit using physical blocks and music output, designed for children ages 6-11 with mixed visual abilities — from full sight to total blindness. …
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Inclusive improvisation through sound and movement mapping: from DMI to ADMI
This paper presents a case study of adapting the AirSticks, a gestural Digital Musical Instrument (DMI) designed for expert percussionists, into an Accessible Digital Musical Instrument (ADMI) for people with disabilities. The AirSticks use Razer Hyd…
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Learning Music Blind: Understanding the Application of Technology to Support BLV Music Learning
This doctoral consortium paper outlines a three-study PhD research program investigating how wearable technologies with vibrotactile feedback can support blind and low vision (BLV) music learners. The research is motivated by the significant barriers…
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Empowering Blind Musicians to Compose and Notate Music with SoundCells
This paper presents a six-week remote study in which six blind and visually impaired (BVI) musicians used SoundCells, a text-based music notation web application, to compose original short works culminating in a live performance by a professional mus…
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Designing Gestures for Digital Musical Instruments: Gesture Elicitation Study with Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
This study addresses a gap in how deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people can enjoy playing musical instruments using smartphones. While DHH people can and do enjoy music — often sensing it through vibrations transmitted by instruments or through body …
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Evaluating Haptic Technology in Accessibility of Digital Audio Workstations for Visual Impaired Creatives
This doctoral consortium paper proposes a two-stage research programme to make Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) more accessible for musicians with visual impairments through haptic feedback. The author argues that modern music production has become …
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"We Musicians Know How to Divide and Conquer": Exploring Multimodal Interactions To Improve Music Reading and Memorization for Blind and Low Vision Learners
This paper investigates how multimodal assistive technologies (MATs) combining sound, vibration, and touch can improve music reading and memorization for blind or low-vision (BLV) musicians and learners. The study involved nine BLV participants from …
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Access Beyond the Score: Understanding Notation Needs and Workflows of Low Vision Musicians
This paper investigates how musicians with low vision acquire, adapt, and use music notation, an area that has received far less research attention than Braille Music for blind musicians. Through semi-structured interviews with 16 low vision musician…
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XRMusic4VIP: Enabling Simultaneous Sheet Music Reading and Playing for Visually Impaired Musicians through Extended Reality
This paper addresses a largely unexplored challenge in music accessibility: enabling visually impaired musicians to simultaneously read sheet music and play keyboard instruments. While assistive technologies for visually impaired musicians exist—incl…