MAMI: A Modular Accessible Musical Instrument

Exploring music actively can be restricted for someone with cognitive, physical, or sensory impairments. They may face barriers to participation and diminished experiences between their musical expression and the music making means available to them. Technology can be used to bridge these gaps and focus on a person’s capability to create personal instruments that allow for active music making and exploration of sound. This doctoral research aims to look at the use of music technology within the school setting and the needs of the users and those around them. Drawing on this and following an Action Research methodology, a tool will be developed following a participatory design process that utilises both hardware and software, in a modular fashion, to provide a flexible and adaptable system to facilitate music making and sound exploration. The desired outcome will be a toolbox that allows users to put together instruments that suit the needs of those playing them allowing access to musical expression.

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Asha Blatherwick

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

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[0001]Bournemouth University

Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.13

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 30

Conference location: Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Fusion

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[1] Arduino 2016 Main Page www.arduino.cc/ 15th March 2016

[2] P. E. BurianL. RogersonF. R. Maffei III ‘Skip’.(2010) The Research Roadmap : A Primer to the Approach and Process Contemporary Issues in Education Research 3 8 271 286

[3] K. BurlandW.L. Magee 2014 Music Technology and Identity in Therapeutic Contexts W.L. Magee Music Technology in Therapeutic and Health Settings Jessica Kingsley Publishers London

[4] A. CevascoA. Hong 2011 Utilizing Technology in Clinical Practice: A Comparison of Board-Certified Music Therapists and Music Therapy Students Music Therapy Perspectives 29 1 65 73

[5] B.J. CroweR. Rio 2004 Implications of technology in music therapy practice and research for music therapy education: a review of literature Journal of music therapy 41 4 282 320

[6] M. Csikszentmihalyi 2015 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Nightingale Conant USA

[7] Cycling'74 2016 Cycling'74 Max https://cycling74.com/products/max/ 13th March 2016

[8] B. Dick 2001 Action research theses http://www.aral.com.au/resources/arthesis.html 13th March 2016

[9] P. EllisL. Van Leeuwen 2000 Living Sound: human interaction and children with autism Music in Special Education, Music Therapy and Music Medicine 1 23

[10] S. Fels 2004 Designing for intimacy: Creating new interfaces for musical expression Proceedings of the IEEE 92 4 672 685

[11] D. E. Gray 2009 Doing Research in the Real World SaGe Publications LTD London

[12] N. D. HahnaS. HadleyV. H. MillerM. Bonaventura 2012 Music technology usage in music therapy: A survey of practice Arts in Psychotherapy 3 5 456 464

[13] G. R. Hayes 2011 The relationship of action research to human-computer interaction ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 18 3 1 20

[14] A. HuntR. KirkM. Neighbour 2004 Multiple media interfaces for therapy IEEE Multimedia 11 50 58

[15] D. Kahneman 2011 Thinking, Fast and Slow Penguin Group London

[16] R. KirkA. HuntM. HildredM. NeighbourF. North 2002 Electronic Musical Instruments-a role in Music Therapy? J. FachnerD Aldrige Music Therapy in the 21st Century: Contemporary Force for Change MusicTherapyWorld.Net Oxford

[17] V. Krüger 2007 Music as Narrative Technology Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy Available from https://normt.uib.no 10th May 2015

[18] D.J. Levitin 2008 This Is Your Brain On Music Atlantic Books London

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[20] W. Magee 2012 Music and Medicine:Applications of Electric Music Technologies in Addressing Psychic Pain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9-OJs93naA 20th November 2014

[21] W.L. Magee 2006 Electronic technologies in clinical music therapy: A survey of practice and attitudes Technology and Disability 18 139 146

[22] J.C. Nagler 2011 Music Therapy Methods With Hand-Held Music Devices in Contemporary Clinical Practice: A Commentary Music and Medicine 3 196 199

[23] S. O’Modhrain 2015 “Once more, with feeling: Revisiting the role of touch in performer-instrument interaction.” NIME2015 Baton Rouge June 4-7

[24] P. ReasonH. Bradbury 2008 Introduction P. ReasonH. Bradbury The Sage Handbook of Action Research Participative Inquiry and Practice SAGE Publications Ltd London

[25] Skoogmusic Ltd 2016 Meet the Skoog http://www.skoogmusic.com/skoog 10th October 2015

[26] Soundbeam 2016 Soundbeam http://www.soundbeam.co.uk/ 16th March 2016

[27] E. Streeter 2007 Reactions and Responses from the Music Therapy Community to the Growth of Computers and Technology - Some Preliminary Thoughts https://voices.no 10th March 2015

[28] E.T. Stringer 2007 Action Research SAGE Publications, Inc California

[29] T. Swingler 1998 “That Was Men Applications of the Soundbeam” CSUN conference Technology for Persons with Disabilities Los Angeles March 1998

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