Free Tools to Help Blind People with Musical Learning

This paper describes solutions to improve the access to music for blind people. These solutions are proposed during the European project Music4VIP. The objective of the project is to help teacher to teach music to blind pupils and to create tools which will enable blind people to learn music independently. A method base on SUS questionnaire is described and used to have a quick feedback for users. These first results indicate that users perceive our solution as good but these results have to be consolidated with further surveys with a large number of respondents.

Authors and Affiliations

1. IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

   Nadine Jessel

Editors and Affiliations

1. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69,, 4040, Linz, Austria

   Klaus Miesenberger

2. Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, M5B 2K3, Toronto, ON, Canada

   Deborah Fels

3. THIM/EA 4004 CHArt, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, 2 rue de la liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis Cedex, France

   Dominique Archambault

4. Teiresias Centre, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

   Petr Peňáz

5. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 11/029, Vienna, 1050, Austria

   Wolfgang Zagler

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