Music has been identified as a promising medium to enhance the accessibility and experience of visual art for people who are blind or have low vision (BLV). However, composing music and designing soundscapes for visual art is a time-consuming, resource intensive process - limiting its scalability for large exhibitions. In this paper, we investigate the use of automated soundscapes to increase the accessibility of visual art. We built a prototype system and ran a qualitative study to evaluate the aesthetic experience provided by the automated soundscapes with 10 BLV participants. From the study, we identified a set of design considerations that reveal requirements from BLV people for the development of automated soundscape systems, setting new directions in which creative systems could enrich the aesthetic experience conveyed by these.

翻译：音乐已被确认为一种有前景的媒介，可增强盲人或低视力人群对视觉艺术的访问与体验。然而，为视觉艺术创作音乐和设计声景是一个耗时且资源密集的过程，这限制了其在大型展览中的可扩展性。本文研究了使用自动声景来提高视觉艺术的可访问性。我们构建了一个原型系统，并进行了一项定性研究，以评估自动声景为10名盲人或低视力参与者提供的美学体验。通过该研究，我们提出了一套设计考量因素，揭示了盲人或低视力人群对开发自动声景系统的需求，为创意系统如何丰富这些系统所传达的美学体验指明了新的方向。