Creative Practice as an Evaluation Method: A Case Study with a Movement-based Musical Instrument

The creative process with technology requires experimentation, exploring affordances and limitations, and evaluation of one's process of different learning stages. Movement-based digital musical instruments (MDMIs) offer many opportunities to study performers' creative processes since performers can artistically explore both the familiar and unfamiliar interactions with the instruments. In this research, we integrate creative process as a qualitative evaluation method into studying performers' interactions. While these processes are often non-linear and iterative, we observe how creativity, through sonic and movement interaction, impacts participants' learning processes. We study these processes with participants from music and/or dance dance backgrounds and report on their experiences.