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[ Apologies for cross-posting ] Important Dates:
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London On 30th June we will be hosting a workshop at the New Interfaces for Musical _expression_ conference at Goldsmiths University of London. This one day workshop will explore both the accessibility of NIMEs and what NIME technology and research can bring to accessibility of audio interfaces and performance, primarily focusing on practitioners with visual impairments. This will take the shape of a day-long workshop, structured around demonstrations of technologies, exchanges of skills and ideas, short presentations of research with individual approaches to workflow and accessibility. There will also be hands-on tutorial in which participants build and program an interactive system, giving them experience working with NIME-related technologies that they can extend into their own practices. We believe that the NIME field offers many opportunities for developing interfaces which allow multi-modal or cross-modal access to DAWs, or to interact with DAWs using different modalities to those normally used. Haptic devices, for instance, can allow users to ‘feel’ things that might only normally be visually represented. This has the great potential to open up access to DAWs, regular studio practice and interactive music, for those who have different senses available to them. In addition, it remains a problem that within the NIME field accessibility is generally an unaddressed issue. Much software used by NIME practitioners - such as Max MSP or Pure Data - remains relatively inaccessible. Even more commercial software often relies on dedicated user bases to maintain its accessibility through myriad updates of operating systems. THEMESWe will invite submissions of papers and demos addressing the following themes of relevance to both the NIME community and users with impairments. These are only our suggestions and we welcome other relevant proposals:
In addition, any submissions that address broader themes of digital musical instruments and accessibility will be considered. How do we get around the many accessibility problems with off-the-shelf hardware? How can the potentially rich collaborative work and two-way knowledge exchange be nurtured? PARTICIPATIONParticipation in the workshop can take different forms. Alongside researchers bringing their work to discuss and demonstrate, we would like to encourage practitioners with visual impairments to attend bring their own experiences to the discussions, experience the demos and participate in a special building and programming session. Please send a short description of your interest and (if appropriate) your research to depic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. by the 13th of June 2014. Feel free to contact us for further queries. WHO WE AREThe workshop is presented by members of the DePIC (Design Patterns for Inclusive Collaboration) project from Goldsmiths and Queen Mary University of London along with collaborators from the University of Michigan.
-- Dr. Oussama Metatla Postdocotral Research Fellow School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Room: CS321 - Tel: +44 (0) 207 882 7249 Web: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~oussama/ ____________________________________________________ -- Dr. Oussama Metatla Postdocotral Research Fellow School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Room: CS321 - Tel: +44 (0) 207 882 7249 Web: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~oussama/ ____________________________________________________ |