This article examines how digital systems designers distil the messiness and ambiguity of
the world into concrete data that can be processed by computing systems. Using Karen …

Creativity is a key skill for the twenty-first century, where the individual and collective
imperative to adapt is omnipresent. Yet, it is still unclear how to put creativity theories into …

Digital interfaces are shrinking, driven by pressures of mass production and consumer
culture, and often accompanied by a discourse of control, precision or convenience …

Feedback is a process that is common in both acoustic and electronic musical instruments,
but rare in digital musical tools or creative digital tools more generally. This paper examines …

The present contribution introduces a theoretical framework to explore music performance
from a perspective inspired by the conceptual resources of two orientations known as …

Historically marginalised instruments witness and bear vital stories that can deeply affect
identity and galvanise communities when revitalised. We present the proto-langspil as a …

This paper describes the ongoing process of developing RAW, a collaborative body–
machine instrument that relies on'sculpting'the sonification of raw EMG signals. The …

If, as several recent papers claim, we have entered a new wave of “Entanglement HCI,” then
we are still at a liminal stage prior to consensus around which sources underpin this …

Feedback instruments offer radical new ways of engaging with instrument design and
musicianship. They are defined by recurrent circulation of signals through the instrument …

While the value of new digital musical instruments lies to a large extent in their music-
making capacity, analyses of new instruments in the research literature often focus on …