Alex Lucas's research while affiliated with Queen's University Belfast and other places

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Publications (3)

Distributed Participatory Design: The challenges of designing with physically disabled musicians during a global pandemic
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  • Aug 2021
The global COVID-19 pandemic has been an extraordinary situation. Social distancing has impacted the vast majority of people, reorganising society, physically separating us from friends, family and colleagues. Collectively we found ourselves in a distributed state, reliant upon digital technologies to maintain social and professional connections. S...
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Enabling Communities of Practice Surrounding the Design and Use of Custom Accessible Music Technology
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  • Jul 2021
In this article, the research group Performance without Barriers reflect on the process of collaboratively designing a custom guitar-inspired instrument with Eoin Fitzpatrick, a physically disabled musician from the Drake Music Project, Northern Ireland. As part of a longitudinal ethnographic case study designed to uncover factors that contribute t...
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... Distributed participatory design is a term that is used to describe situations in which all or most design team members are physically, and perhaps also temporally, dispersed. The need to re-frame activities focused on inclusive musicmaking or design due to the absence of in-person contact with musicians with physical disabilities during a global pandemic was discussed in [66]. The authors proposed to use the Three Pillars of Inclusive Design (accessibility, usability, and value) as a framework for analysis in such contexts. ...
Reference: Customizing and Evaluating Accessible Multisensory Music Experiences with Pre-Verbal Children—A Case Study on the Perception of Musical Haptics Using Participatory Design with Proxies
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... When it comes to the design of ADMIs, it is crucial that those who have lived experience of disability are actively involved as co-designers in the process of creating the instruments. Reflections on co-design processes in the context of ADMI development are presented, for example, in [33][34][35][36]. In the systematic review of assistive technology developed through participatory methods published in [37], the authors emphasize that participatory development processes should enhance the voice of the participants, considering their ideas, desires, and needs. ...
Reference: Customizing and Evaluating Accessible Multisensory Music Experiences with Pre-Verbal Children—A Case Study on the Perception of Musical Haptics Using Participatory Design with Proxies
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... It is worth noticing that Rodger et al. based their vision also on Gibson's ecological psychology [112]. In a recent study, it has been discussed that ecological conceptions are extremely valuable for digital musical instruments as assistive technology [187]. The idea of performance ecology is also relevant in Melbye's reflection on agency, analysing what is the felt sense of agency that musicians and improvisers encounter when "co-constructing complex performance ecologies" [226, p. 27]. ...
Reference: INTERACTIVE SOUND IN PERFORMANCE ECOLOGIES: STUDYING CONNECTIONS AMONG ACTORS AND ARTIFACTS
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