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Enhancing collaborative signing songwriting experience of the d/Deaf individuals

Published: 01 January 2025 Publication History

Highlights

This paper suggests a multimodal synthesizer designed to bridge the gap in musical expression for d/Deaf individuals. By incorporating visual and vibrotactile feedback, the synthesizer allows d/Deaf songwriters to engage in a rich, collaborative songwriting process alongside hearing partners.
Through an observation study and two workshops, we identified the value and limitations of the song signing creative experience for d/Deaf people.
The study's findings reveal how this approach fosters creative musical expression and enhances social connection and understanding between d/Deaf and hearing individuals.

Abstract

Songwriting can be an important means of developing the personal and social skills of d/Deaf individuals, but there is a lack of research on understanding and supporting their songwriting. We aimed to understand the d/Deaf people's songwriting experience for the song signing genre, which visually represents music with sign language and body movement. Through two workshops in which mixed-hearing individuals collaborated in songwriting activities, we identified the potentials and challenges of the songwriting experience and developed a music-sensory substitution system that multimodally presents music in sound as well as visual, and vibrotactile feedback. The proposed system enables mixed-hearing partners to have better collaborative interaction and signing songwriting experience. Consequently, we found that the process of signing songwriting is valued by d/Deaf individuals as a means of musical self-expression and social connecting, and our system has increased their musical engagement while encouraging them to express themselves more through music and sign language.

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies  Volume 193, Issue C
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  1. d/Deaf people
  2. Songwriting
  3. Song signing
  4. Mixed-hearing group
  5. Music sensory substitute system
  6. Cooperative experience

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