Toward accessible technology for music composers and producers with motor disabilities

  • Authors:
  • Adam J. Sporka;Ben L. Carson;Paul Nauert;Sri H. Kurniawan

  • Affiliations:
  • Czech Technical University in Prague, Karlovo nám, Praha;University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA;University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA;University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In an initial user study, three motor-impaired musicians---a composer with a degenerative motor neuron disease, a guitarist who suffered a stroke, and a first-year college student with impaired finger movement---identified prospective areas of research in assistive technology. Participants in the study made use of a range of technologies to adapt conventional software to their needs, and identified practical limitations and challenges in those adaptations, including suggestions for novel and intuitive interfaces, optimized control-surface layouts, and repurposing opportunities in text-input techniques.