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• Accessibility and Social Inclusivity: A Literature Review of Music Technology for Blind and Low Vision People

  Shumeng Zhang, Raul Masu, Mela Bettega, Mingming Fan · 2025 · ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This systematic literature review examines 54 papers on music technology designed for blind and low vision (BLV) people, following the PRISMA methodology. The authors searched ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, and Web of Science to identify research published through…

  blind and low vision · music technology · assistive music technology · systematic literature review · social inclusion

• Digital Musical Instruments in Special Educational Needs Schools: Requirements from the Music Teachers' Perspective and the Status Quo in Germany

  Andreas Förster, Steffen Lepa · 2023 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This study presents the first comprehensive survey of digital musical instrument (DMI) use in special educational needs (SEN) schools, covering 745 schools across 12 of Germany's 16 federal states with a 41.5% response rate. The researchers surveyed 750 music teachers to…

  digital musical instruments · music education · special education · cognitive disabilities · music accessibility

• Designing Gestures for Digital Musical Instruments: Gesture Elicitation Study with Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

  Ryo Iijima, Akihisa Shitara, Yoichi Ochiai · 2022 · Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This study addresses a gap in how deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people can enjoy playing musical instruments using smartphones. While DHH people can and do enjoy music — often sensing it through vibrations transmitted by instruments or through body movements while performing —…

  deaf and hard of hearing · music accessibility · gesture elicitation · digital musical instruments · haptic feedback

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