Papers in this group
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There are about as many strategies for listening to music as there are music enthusiasts. This makes learning about overarching patterns and similarities difficult. In this paper, we present an empirical analysis of long-term music listening…
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Music systems that generate playlists are gaining increasing popularity, yet ways to select songs to be acceptable to users is still elusive. We present the results of an explorative study that focused on the language of musically untrained end…
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As people collect more and more digital music, photos, and video, the growing scale of the collection challenges how families share and collaborate around home media collections. We studied the intersection between physical and digital media…
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Current research on music information retrieval and music digital libraries focuses on providing access to huge, public music collections. In this paper we consider a different, but related, problem: supporting an individual in maintaining and using…
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A number of new technologies such as the MP3 music compression format and the Napster file sharing network are creating new opportunities for consumers’ activities with music media. In this paper we explore current practice with both conventional…
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User experience in social media involves rich interactions with the media content and other participants in the commu- nity. In order to support such communities, it is important to understand the factors that drive the users’ engagement. In this…
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Randomness is being harnessed in the design of some interactive systems. This is observed in random blogs, random web searching, and in particular Apple’s iPod Shuffle. Yet the role of randomness in design of interactive systems in not well…
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Recently, listening to music in shuffle mode has gained a strong following. Analysis of online data about the ‘shuffle experience’ reveals a range of rich and unusual user-experiences - one in particular is Serendipity. Although serendipity is often…
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Many people today have access to enormous libraries of digital content. Increasingly these libraries contain personal content, consumed in support of people’s non-instrumental needs. If current trends persist, these repositories will only increase.…
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New computer applications, such as the infamous “Napster” system enable the sharing of music over the Internet, with limited communication around this sharing activity. This paper discusses the use and opportunities for these music sharing…
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We describe the results of two ethnographic-style studies that investigated consumer use of photos and music respectively. Although the studies were designed, executed, and analyzed separately, in our striking similarities between the participants…
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Nowadays, music fans are beginning to massively use mobile digital music players and dedicated software to or- ganize and play large collections of music. In this con- text, users deal with huge music libraries containing thou- sands of tracks. Such…
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A common way to support exploratory music retrieval sce- narios is to give an overview using a neighborhood-preserving projection of the collection onto two dimensions. However, neighborhood cannot always be preserved in the projection because of…
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