Dialogic Design of Accessible Digital Musical Instruments: Investigating Performer Experience
Eevee Zayas-Garin, Andrew McPherson · 2022
While it is accepted that accessible digital musical instruments (ADMIs) should be created with the involvement of targeted communities, participatory design (PD) is an unsettled practice that gets defined variously, loosely or not at all. In this paper, we explore the concept of dialogic design and provide a case study of how it can be used in the design of an ADMI. While a future publication will give detail of the design of this instrument and provide an analysis of the data from this study, in this paper we set out how the conversations between researcher and participant have prepared us to build an instrument that responds to the lived experience of the participant.