Live Audience Accessibility & Augmentation (‘LAAA’) Project(s) GEI Presentation for AEME Panel (Chair) 2025

Bossey, Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9874-6323 (2024) Live Audience Accessibility & Augmentation (‘LAAA’) Project(s) GEI Presentation for AEME Panel (Chair) 2025. In: AGF - Green Events and Innovations, 25th February 2025, Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, W2.

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Abstract / Summary

The LAAA project(s) explored music festival audience’s perceptions of liveness, haptic dancefloors and haptic vests regarding accessibility, disability and neurodivergence.

Four LAAA projects evaluated audience experiences of ‘live’ music performances, augmented with haptic technology while facilitating learning, knowledge exchange and outreach activity. The first LAAA events installed the BEAT BLOCKS haptic dancefloor and programmed DEAF RAVE DJ workshops to school groups including The Deaf Academy in May 2023. LAAA2F field tested haptic vests, at Boomtown Fair and the Deaf Rave Festival in 2023. LAAA2BB measured audience and policy maker perceptions of the haptic dancefloor, with colleagues from the University of Brighton, at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Meltdown Festival and Tropical Pressure in 2024. LAAA2BB co-convened the Access to Music Conference, at Cheltenham Jazz Festival. LAAA3 delivered knowledge exchange and included Bellatrix performing with a haptic floor tile on stage. Multiple partners included: Beat Blocks, Deaf Rave, Attitude is Everything, providing in-conversation speakers and Cheltenham Festival Ltd, producing Access to Music Conference.

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