Exploring Materiality in Digital Musical Instruments Design through Material Probes

Study 2 of PhD Research

Publication

This digital appendix includes additional detailed documentation related to the research presented in my PhD thesis and the publication cited below. Please feel free to contact Jianing Zheng if you have any questions about this documentation.

Jianing Zheng, Nick Bryan-Kinns, and Andrew P. McPherson. 2022. “Material Matters: Exploring Materiality in Digital Musical Instruments Design.” Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. [Full Paper]

Full paper here

Material Probes in DMI Design

1 / Methodology

This study in an approach combined Material Probe and Material Speculation explored and questioned possible, and preferable futures of deformable DMIs. The detailed study procedure can be found here.

2 / Pre-Study Survey and Ethical Approval

The pre-study survey of this study can be found here.

The ethical approval of this study can be found here.

3 / Code System of Thematic Analysis

The full list of the code system can be found here.