Associating Avatars with Musical Genres

Holm, Jukka; Siirtola, Harri; Laaksonen, Lauri

doi:10.1109/iv.2010.36

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“…Each of the avatar parts represents a certain musical genre. The Avatar prototype application was evaluated by 40 participants and considered to be entertaining, easy to use, and innovative [11] .…”

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A proposed framework for visualising music mood using texture image

Husain

Shiratuddin

Wong

2013

2013 International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS)

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-Fairly recently, extensive use of digital music has led to an increase of songs in online music applications and personal music libraries. In large libraries, songs which are not listened to regularly will go unnoticed. There are many ways of browsing and discovering new music. In the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), some type of visual form such as colour, avatar, mood picture and album cover to visualise music, have been introduced. In this paper, we propose a framework for visualising music mood using texture images to assist listeners in discovering new songs and artists that might not have been discovered otherwise using conventional means.

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“…rd International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems -2013 (ICRIIS'13) Figure 2. The Avatar prototype application [11]. In visualising music mood, there is one music recommendation player called Smoodi [13].…”

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A proposed framework for visualising music mood using texture image

Husain

Shiratuddin

Wong

2013

2013 International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS)

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“…The designs were partially based on [13]. As [13] includes a more detailed discussion on designing musical avatars, the following text summarizes only the main points behind the design process.…”

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“…Most participants considered it to be a novel way to present music collections (median 6.0). When asked to describe the basic idea of the prototype in their own words, the following types of answers were given: "Music is selected based on the look of the avatar" (male, 13), "Creating your own character that matches certain musical styles" (male, 12), "Exploring the music collection" (male, 32), and "Creating playlists that include music from various genres" (female, 35). Thus, the basic concept was understood well.…”

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Evaluating an avatar-based user interface for discovering new music

Holm

Lehtiniemi

Eronen

2010

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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This paper studies the idea of using avatars as a user interface for discovering new music. In the evaluated prototype, the user builds an avatar from three parts (head, body and background). The appearance of each part reflects a certain musical genre. Based on the selected combination of parts, the application generates a new playlist of music by seeding a content-based music recommender with examples from the selected genres. In a user study with 40 participants, the prototype was considered to be entertaining and easy to use. The concept inspired users to explore new music and provided faster access to cross-genre playlists than traditional music player applications. In the longer term use, the prototype was slightly too simple and it would have benefited from, e.g., text-based search functionality. Several other interesting ideas for the future development of the concept were also received.

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