In this paper, we follow up on the recently emerged idea of "computational strangeness," which represents algorithmic recommendations as artistic obstructions in creative work. The concept of "strangeness" stems from a process of user engagement in the context of a collaboration between Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Music Information Retrieval (MIR), in which professional makers of Electronic Dance Music requested tools that abandon the "more-of-The-same" paradigm of similarity-based retrieval in favor of the possibility to get serendipitous, opposing results to stimulate the creative process. We describe a prototype that allows the user to explore the space of dissimilarity for the case of rhythmic patterns by means of a simple dial. This "strangeness dial" allows the gradual adjustment of the degree of desired otherness. We test this initial prototype in a questionnaire-based user study to inform future developments. A central outcome is that dissimilarity-based notions, such as "otherness" and "strangeness", | even more than similarity | are highly subjective concepts that can not be addressed without strategies for personalization.
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Knees, P., & Andersen, K. (2016). A prototype for exploration of computational strangeness in the context of rhythm variation. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol. 1618). CEUR-WS.
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