Subject: [AUDITORY] Call for Special Track Papers on Accessible Digital Music =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94_?=EAI ArtsIT 2026 From: Emma Frid <emma.m.frid@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:08:17 +0200--00000000000021b9230653fc9222 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" ArtsIT Interactivity & Game Creation - Special Track: Accessible Digital Music for Education and Therapy We invite researchers, designers, educators, therapists, and technologists to contribute to a dedicated track on Accessible Digital Music for Education and Therapy. This track aims to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on how digital musical tools can support inclusive learning, rehabilitation, wellbeing, and creative empowerment across diverse populations. We are particularly interested in work that bridges artistic practice, human-computer interaction, music technology, and health sciences. The last decade has seen major advances in gesture-based interaction, browser-native music systems, adaptive interfaces, AI-driven musical expression, multimodal feedback systems, and low-cost and open-source digital instruments. However, accessibility remains unevenly addressed. Many tools still assume normative bodies, neurotypical cognition, or traditional musical training. This track seeks to foreground research that challenges these assumptions and expands who can meaningfully participate in digital music-making. We welcome submissions that explore, but are not limited to: - Accessible Digital Musical Instruments (ADMIs) - Gesture-based or touch-free musical interaction - Music technologies for special education - Digital tools for motor, cognitive, or sensory rehabilitation - Inclusive design methodologies for music technology - AI-augmented accessibility in musical expression - Participatory design with disabled musicians or learners - Case studies from classrooms, clinics, and community settings - Cross-disciplinary frameworks connecting arts, therapy, and HCI - Ethical, cultural, and social dimensions of accessible music tech We encourage submissions that offer: - Empirical studies - Design frameworks - Technological prototypes - Artistic explorations - Theoretical or methodological contributions - Evaluations in educational or therapeutic contexts Both completed research and well-grounded work-in-progress are welcome. Full paper submission deadline: 1 July 2026. However, there will also be a late paper track (please reach out to me or Elena Partesotti, epartesotti@xxxxxxxx, for further information about possible late submission)! More info and submission portal: https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2026/accessible-digital-music/ Location: The ArtsIT conference will be hybrid and organized 2-4 December in Bratislava, Slovakia. Venue: https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2026/venue/ Publication: All accepted and registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer in the LNICST series (https://www.springer.com/series/8197) and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library - ArtsIT Conference Proceedings (https://link.springer.com/conference/artsit). The series is indexed in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH. All accepted authors are also eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of: - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies: https://publications.eai.eu/index.php/ct - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Broadcasting Technologies: https://publications.eai.eu/index.php/bt Authors have the opportunity to publish their articles in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Scopus, Ei-indexed, ESCI-WoS, Compendex) by paying an additional $250, discounted from the standard $400 rate for conference authors. Publication costs: At least one author must be registered for an accepted paper. There is a 50% discount if you publish a second paper. The conference registration fees will be published after the notification deadline. Please note that registration fees may vary significantly from one ArtsIT edition to another depending on the conference location, local costs, sponsorships, and overall event budget (the previous edition in Dubai, see https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2025/registration/, had relatively high operating costs and no sponsorship support, which contributed to higher registration fees). Best, Emma Frid on behalf of the ADMN committee: https://sites.google.com/view/accessibledm/ --00000000000021b9230653fc9222 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">ArtsIT Interactivity & Game Creation - Special Track: = Accessible Digital Music for Education and Therapy<br><br>We invite researc= hers, designers, educators, therapists, and technologists to contribute to = a dedicated track on Accessible Digital Music for Education and Therapy. Th= is track aims to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on how digit= al musical tools can support inclusive learning, rehabilitation, wellbeing,= and creative empowerment across diverse populations. We are particularly i= nterested in work that bridges artistic practice, human-computer interactio= n, music technology, and health sciences. The last decade has seen major ad= vances in gesture-based interaction, browser-native music systems, adaptive= interfaces, AI-driven musical expression, multimodal feedback systems, and= low-cost and open-source digital instruments. However, accessibility remai= ns unevenly addressed. Many tools still assume normative bodies, neurotypic= al cognition, or traditional musical training. This track seeks to foregrou= nd research that challenges these assumptions and expands who can meaningfu= lly participate in digital music-making.<br><br>We welcome submissions that= explore, but are not limited to:<br><br>- Accessible Digital Musical Instr= uments (ADMIs)<br>- Gesture-based or touch-free musical interaction<br>- Mu= sic technologies for special education<br>- Digital tools for motor, cognit= ive, or sensory rehabilitation<br>- Inclusive design methodologies for musi= c technology<br>- AI-augmented accessibility in musical expression<br>- Par= ticipatory design with disabled musicians or learners<br>- Case studies fro= m classrooms, clinics, and community settings<br>- Cross-disciplinary frame= works connecting arts, therapy, and HCI<br>- Ethical, cultural, and social = dimensions of accessible music tech<br><br>We encourage submissions that of= fer:<br><br>- Empirical studies<br>- Design frameworks<br>- Technological p= rototypes<br>- Artistic explorations<br>- Theoretical or methodological con= tributions<br>- Evaluations in educational or therapeutic contexts<br><br>B= oth completed research and well-grounded work-in-progress are welcome.<br><= br>Full paper submission deadline: 1 July 2026. However, there will also be= a late paper track (please reach out to me or Elena Partesotti, <a href=3D= "mailto:epartesotti@xxxxxxxx">epartesotti@xxxxxxxx</a>, for further information= about possible late submission)!<br><br>More info and submission portal: <= a href=3D"https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2026/accessible-digital-music/= ">https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2026/accessible-digital-music/</a><br>= <br>Location: The ArtsIT conference will be hybrid and organized 2-4 Decemb= er in Bratislava, Slovakia. Venue: <a href=3D"https://artsit.eai-conference= s.org/2026/venue/">https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2026/venue/</a><br><b= r>Publication:<br>All accepted and registered papers will be submitted for = publishing by Springer in the LNICST series (<a href=3D"https://www.springe= r.com/series/8197">https://www.springer.com/series/8197</a>) and made avail= able through SpringerLink Digital Library - ArtsIT Conference Proceedings (= <a href=3D"https://link.springer.com/conference/artsit">https://link.spring= er.com/conference/artsit</a>). The series is indexed in leading indexing se= rvices, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library= , IO-Port, MathSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH.<br><br>All accepted au= thors are also eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:<b= r><br>- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies: <a href=3D"http= s://publications.eai.eu/index.php/ct">https://publications.eai.eu/index.php= /ct</a><br>- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Broadcasting Technologies: <a hre= f=3D"https://publications.eai.eu/index.php/bt">https://publications.eai.eu/= index.php/bt</a><br><br>Authors have the opportunity to publish their artic= les in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Sc= opus, Ei-indexed, ESCI-WoS, Compendex) by paying an additional $250, discou= nted from the standard $400 rate for conference authors.<br><br>Publication= costs: At least one author must be registered for an accepted paper. There= is a 50% discount if you publish a second paper. The conference registrati= on fees will be published after the notification deadline. Please note that= registration fees may vary significantly from one ArtsIT edition to anothe= r depending on the conference location, local costs, sponsorships, and over= all event budget (the previous edition in Dubai, see <a href=3D"https://art= sit.eai-conferences.org/2025/registration/">https://artsit.eai-conferences.= org/2025/registration/</a>, had relatively high operating costs and no spon= sorship support, which contributed to higher registration fees).<br><br>Bes= t,<br>Emma Frid<br>on behalf of the ADMN committee: <a href=3D"https://site= s.google.com/view/accessibledm/">https://sites.google.com/view/accessibledm= /</a></div> --00000000000021b9230653fc9222--