Carie Chen¹, Carol Chen¹ and Justin Lou², ¹USA, ²California State Polytechnic University, USA

Our project is centered on the concept of making music accessible to all individuals, including those with hearing impairments. Music can often play a large role in many lives, able to serve as a source of emotional comfort for many. As the numbers of hearing-impaired individuals rise significantly each year, it is important to enhance accessibility within their lives, including ways to experience the joy of music. By creating a device with vibrations and LED lights that sync with the beat/tempo of each song, this new way of music is easily accessible to all, especially to those with hearing impairments [7]. Leveraging our coding skills, we designed a program that could analyze a specific audio file. The analyzed information is then sent to our raspberry pi, connected to a haptic controller and LED lights through GPIO pins, this allows an easily accessible and functioning process for all users [8].

Musical Accessibility, Hearing Impairments, Haptic Feedback, Synchronized Music Device