Hedonic and ergonomic quality aspects determine a software's appeal
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Item-based collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
An innovative three-dimensional user interface for exploring music collections enriched
MULTIMEDIA '06 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts
Evaluating SuperMusic: streaming context-aware mobile music service
ACE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
Associating Avatars with Musical Genres
IV '10 Proceedings of the 2010 14th International Conference Information Visualisation
A virtual world prototype for interacting with a music collection
OCSC'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Online communities and social computing
A virtual world prototype for interacting with a music collection
OCSC'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Online communities and social computing
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
MyTerritory: evaluation of outdoor gaming prototype for music discovery
Proceedings of the 11th 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.