<- Quinn JH - Adaptive Instruments Project

Adaptive Instruments Project Touch Keyboard v0.9

A collaboration with Portland Community College, Daniel Rolnik and Portland Art and Learning Studios

In 2019, I worked with three other engineers to develop adaptive interfaces for people with significant disabilities - with the goal of enabling them to play original electronic music in harmony.

We created four novel digital interfaces with a total hardware bill of $400, paired with an portable .exe app that networked the devices and allowed more sound controls. Each instrument had latency under 15ms.I wrote about our work in 'expanding access to music technology', published in the proceedings of NIME2020 which discusses how modern rapid-development tools like box-and-wire programming can enable adaptive product design. I think these paradigms are exciting for quickly iterating to fit niche use cases, with flexibility to generalize. It was notable that during the project teammates could assist one-another rapidly by viewing "the same model" of control flow.