Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• The Flote: An Instrument for People with Limited Mobility

  Amal Dar Aziz, Chris Warren, Hayden Bursk, Sean Follmer (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  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…

  • music accessibility
  • adaptive musical instrument
  • limited mobility
  • head tracking
  • breath control
  • assistive technology
  • creative expression
  • physical therapy
  • DIY assistive technology

• Empowering Blind Musicians to Compose and Notate Music with SoundCells

  William Christopher Payne, Fabiha Ahmed, Michael Zachor, Michael Gardell, Isabel Huey, Amy Hurst, R. Luke DuBois (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  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…

  • music accessibility
  • blindness
  • braille music
  • creative expression
  • assistive technology
  • text-based interface
  • co-design
  • longitudinal study