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Toward accessible technology for music composers and producers with motor disabilities

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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.

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  • (2022)The Perfect Musical Instrument Does Not ExistProceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments10.1145/3529190.3534741(507-513)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2022

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    ASSETS '13: Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
    October 2013
    343 pages
    ISBN:9781450324052
    DOI:10.1145/2513383
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    1. UI
    2. disabilities
    3. music
    4. notation
    5. production
    6. user study

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