Literature Reviews

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

• Inclusive Improvisation: Exploring the Line between Listening and Playing Music

  Alon Ilsar, Gail Kenning, Sam Trolland, Ciaran Frame (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper explores how Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) designed for professional performance can be adapted into Accessible Digital Musical Instruments (ADMIs) with minimal hardware and software changes. The authors present the AirSticks, a gestu…

  • accessible digital musical instruments
  • ADMI
  • gesture recognition
  • music accessibility
  • improvisation
  • dementia
  • leukodystrophy
  • empowerment
  • inclusive design
  • motion tracking

• Meeting Participants with Intellectual Disabilities during COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Improvisation

  Leandro Soares Guedes, Monica Landoni (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21)

  This short paper (poster) shares lessons learned from conducting participatory design research with adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the context of a project aimed at making museum visits more accessible, re…

  • intellectual disability
  • co-design
  • COVID-19
  • museum accessibility
  • participatory design
  • improvisation
  • research methods
  • cultural accessibility