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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
Funology: from usability to enjoyment
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CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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ACE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
Evaluating an avatar-based user interface for discovering new music
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IV '11 Proceedings of the 2011 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation
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This paper studies the idea of selecting music by exploring preview clips in an album cover space. In the implemented prototype, the user listens to representative audio clips until the preferred musical style has been found, and the corresponding song is then used as a seed song for generating a new playlist of music recommendations. The prototype was evaluated by 40 Finnish participants. In the initial interview, the concept was seen as an innovative and a fast way to explore different types of music without deeper musical knowledge, and it was said that the beauty of the concept is the instant feedback that the user gets when moving in the album cover space. In the longer-term use, the prototype was considered to be less fun and it would have benefited from the possibility to search for individual songs or listen to full albums. Still, the majority of the participants would have wanted to continue using the prototype to complement their other music player applications.