Topics include:

• Approaches on decolonising music and musical interfaces
• Studies or reviews of non-Western musical epistemologies and pedagogies
• Novel controllers, interfaces or instruments for musical expression
• Augmented, embedded and hyper instruments
• Technologies or systems for collaborative music-making
• Discussions about the artistic and cultural impact of NIMEs
• Reflections on the ethical, environmental, societal, and political impact of NIMEs
• Critical analysis of existing commercial, academic or artistic NIME practice
• Historical, theoretical or philosophical discussions about designing or performing with NIMEs
• Easier/cheaper approaches to the design of bespoke and customizeable accessible instruments
• Strategies that improve the reach and replicability of one-off accessible instrument projects, particularly those that are unlikely to have full commercial potential
• Musical interfaces designed by/with disabled/neurodiverse musicians
• Practice-based research approaches/methodologies/criticism
• Music-related human-computer interaction
• User studies and evaluations of NIMEs
• Interactive sound art and sound installations
• New music performance paradigms
• Gesture to sound mapping
• Sonic interaction design
• Musical robotics
• Sensor and actuator technologies for NIMEs
• Interface protocols and data formats supporting musical interaction
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence in NIMEs \
• Pedagogical perspectives and/or student projects in NIME-related courses