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MIC-TOK: A Musical Live Coding Environment for Constrained Input

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Live coding—a popular, growing field, where performers code on stage—is used in many different contexts, including music, art, and dance. Typical live coding environments require interfaces that use dozens of inputs for a performance and some level of familiarity with basic programming for operability. This makes them potentially inaccessible to some users. Our research attempts to make musical live coding less complex by designing Mic-Tok; a musical live coding environment for a constrained set of inputs. We created an initial version of Mic-Tok using a combination of existing design methods and the Cognitive Dimensions of Notation Framework to serve as a guide. We conducted formative evaluations to inform the design of our tool. With observations from each evaluation, we iteratively modified Mic-Tok. After finalizing our modifications, we conducted summative evaluations to evaluate user perception of the effectiveness of Mic-Tok in making live coding more accessible. Analysis of results from our user study suggest that users perceive Mic-Tok as approachable and expressive.

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  • etd-23216
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  • 2021
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  • 2021-05-06
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  • 2023-11-07

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