An Iterative Design ‘by proxy’ Method for Developing Educational Music Interfaces

Corey J Ford, and Chris Nash

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Iterative design methods involving children and educators are difficult to conduct, given both the ethical implications and time commitments understandably required. The qualitative design process presented here recruits introductory teacher training students, towards discovering useful design insights relevant to music education technologies “by proxy”. Therefore, some of the barriers present in child-computer interaction research are avoided. As an example, the method is applied to the creation of a block-based music notation system, named Codetta. Building upon successful educational technologies that intersect both music and computer programming, Codetta seeks to enable child composition, whilst aiding generalist educator’s confidence in teaching music.

Citation:

Corey J Ford, and Chris Nash. 2020. An Iterative Design ‘by proxy’ Method for Developing Educational Music Interfaces. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4813361

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME20_53,
 abstract = {Iterative design methods involving children and educators are difficult to conduct, given both the ethical implications and time commitments understandably required. The qualitative design process presented here recruits introductory teacher training students, towards discovering useful design insights relevant to music education technologies “by proxy”. Therefore, some of the barriers present in child-computer interaction research are avoided. As an example, the method is applied to the creation of a block-based music notation system, named Codetta. Building upon successful educational technologies that intersect both music and computer programming, Codetta seeks to enable child composition, whilst aiding generalist educator’s confidence in teaching music.},
 address = {Birmingham, UK},
 author = {Ford, Corey J and Nash, Chris},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4813361},
 editor = {Romain Michon and Franziska Schroeder},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {July},
 pages = {279--284},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/fPbZMQ5LEmk},
 publisher = {Birmingham City University},
 title = {An Iterative Design ‘by proxy’ Method for Developing Educational Music Interfaces},
 url = {https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2020/nime2020_paper53.pdf},
 year = {2020}
}