Analysis of Accessible Digital Musical Instruments through the lens of disability models: a case study with instruments targeting d/Deaf people

Frontiers in Computer Science

Computer Science

Isabelle Cossette¹  Marcelo M. Wanderley²  Erivan Gonçalves Duarte² 

[1] Department of Music Research, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada;CIRMMT, Montreal, QC, Canada;Department of Music Research, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada;CIRMMT, Montreal, QC, Canada;IDMIL, Montreal, QC, Canada;

关键词: Accessible Digital Musical Instruments;    disability studies;    music and disability;    participatory design;    Deaf culture;    deafness;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fcomp.2023.1158476

 received in 2023-02-03, accepted in 2023-10-02,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Music educators and researchers have grown increasingly aware of the need for traditional musical practices to promote inclusive music for disabled people. Inclusive music participation has been addressed by Accessible Digital Musical Instruments (ADMIs), which welcome different ways of playing and perceiving music, with considerable impact on music-making for disabled people. ADMIs offer exciting possibilities for instrument design to consider and incorporate individual constraints (e.g., missing arm, low vision, hearing loss, etc.) more than traditional acoustic instruments, whose generally fixed design allows little room for disabled musicians inclusivity. Relatively few works discuss ADMIs in the context of disability studies, and no work has investigated the impact of different disability models in the process of designing inclusive music technology. This paper proposes criteria to classify ADMIs according to the medical, social, and cultural models of disability, then applies these criteria to evaluate eleven ADMIs targeting d/Deaf people. This analysis allows us to reflect on the design of ADMIs from different perspectives of disability, giving insights for future projects and deepening our understanding of medical, social, and cultural aspects of accessible music technology.

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