The reacTable: exploring the synergy between live music performance and tabletop tangible interfaces
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction
Modular musical objects towards embodied control of digital music
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
A music application for visually impaired people using daily goods and stationeries on the table
Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
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The collaborative work of visually impaired people and sighted people on equal ground plays a significant role for visually impaired people's social advance in society. We developed a collaborative application of music composition to achieve the goal mentioned above. This application has a beautiful tangible interface that would attract the attention of both visually impaired and sighted people, and multiple functions that are likely to induce collaborative communication among users. We demonstrated the experiment with six visually impaired people and six sighted people. In the experiment, the visually impaired people could lead the collaborative work without hesitating even in front of the sighted people whom they did not know very well. Then we focused our attention on the moment in which the visually impaired were having fun, and discussed the factor of the excitement.