Foxtrot: a soundtrack for where you are

  • Authors:
  • Anupriya Ankolekar;Thomas Sandholm

  • Affiliations:
  • HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA;HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of Interacting with Sound Workshop: Exploring Context-Aware, Local and Social Audio Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a mobile location-aware and crowd-sourced audio application, Foxtrot, that allows people to share the sounds and music they enjoy and associate with a particular location. Foxtrot plays an automatically created radio-like stream of geo-tagged music, ambient sounds and comments left by friends and other people. We discuss some of the design considerations for Foxtrot and our approach to selecting and scheduling audio content for playback. In addition, we present a pilot study of Foxtrot, which indicates that a location-aware music system might indeed provide an engaging mobile experience for users.