The Perfect Musical Instrument Does Not Exist: Experience Reports for the Development of Accessible NIMEs.

In this paper, we describe the accessibility challenges that people with disabilities face when making music in groups. Therefore we present a collection of experience reports from interviews with four stakeholders who are working in this field and each participant addresses a different perspective on this topic. Furthermore we analyse the literature for already existing findings. Our goal is to find the severest and most common problems disabled people have to deal with when it comes to learn or use musical instruments especially for making music in ensembles/groups. We use these findings to formulate requirements for improvements and possible developments of new interfaces and suggest where future research is needed. The main contributions of this preliminary study are: (1) an overview of past work in musical interfaces for people with disabilities as well as research for inclusive instruments and (2) learnings and recommendations from four expert interviews, that are relevant for future HCI studies on inclusive musical instruments.