ORCID Profile
0000-0002-4563-0618
Current Organisations
Simon Fraser University
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Toronto Metropolitan University
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University of Sydney
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University of Waterloo
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Publisher: IEEE
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: ACM
Date: 14-02-2021
Publisher: ACM
Date: 02-12-2020
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 21-09-2023
DOI: 10.1145/3615663
Abstract: Music can be a catalyst for self-development, creative expression, and community building for blind or low vision (BLV) in iduals. However, BLV music learners face complex obstacles in learning music. They are highly reliant on their learning environment and music teachers for accommodations and flexibility. Prior research identified the challenges faced by BLV musicians. Yet, limited research has addressed these challenges through the development of technology. Drawing upon the experience and suggestions of 40 BLV professional musicians, amateur musicians and music teachers (including sighted teachers with experience teaching blind students), we identified five themes: (1) Key Challenges of BLV Music Learning, (2) Personal Adaptations to Overcome Music Learning Challenges, (3) Perspectives on Current and Future Assistive Technologies, (4) Contention Between Braille Music and Auditory Learning and (5) Role of Human Support for Music Learning. Together, these findings outline a path to make music learning more accessible to BLV people. To this end, we describe opportunities for enhanced audio cues for musical communication, recommend integrating vibrotactile feedback to aid music reading and design technology that supports independence and interdependence in music learning.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 30-11-2021
Publisher: ACM
Date: 09-02-2020
Publisher: LAR Center Press
Date: 25-09-2016
DOI: 10.18533/JOURNAL.V5I9.1012
Abstract: This paper explores interactive applications that encourage mindfulness through sensors and novel input technology. Research in psychology and neuroscience demonstrating the benefits of mindfulness is initiating a new movement in interactive design. As cutting edge technologies become more accessible they are being employed to research and explore the practice of mindfulness. We examine three interactive installation artworks that promote mindfulness. In order to contextualize the interactive artworks discussed we first examine the historical background of the Electroencephalogram (EEG). We then discuss the physiological processes of meditation and the history behind the clinical practice of mindfulness. We show how artists and designers employ EEG sensors, to record the electrical activity of the brain to visualize mindfulness meditation practices. Lastly, we conclude the paper by discussing the future of the three artworks.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 02-05-2019
Publisher: ACM
Date: 13-06-2022
Publisher: ACM
Date: 26-02-2023
Publisher: ICST
Date: 2015
Publisher: ACM
Date: 13-02-2022
Publisher: ACM
Date: 19-04-2023
Publisher: ACM
Date: 13-02-2022
Publisher: ACM
Date: 15-07-2020
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