Manipulating music: multimodal interaction for DJs
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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NIME '02 Proceedings of the 2002 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Mixxx: towards novel DJ interfaces
NIME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference abstracts and applications
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AUIC '07 Proceedings of the eight Australasian conference on User interface - Volume 64
Mobile collaborative live video mixing
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
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INTERACT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP TC13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Digging in the crates: an ethnographic study of DJS' work
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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We present an interactive system, Mixxx, for live DJ'ing using digital sound files. The design of the system is approached from two directions: Through Contextual Design using contextual interviews and video recordings and Open Source development where feedback and ideas are generated by developers and users from the open source community. Our contextual interviews show that DJs use a significant amount of their time on tracking and synchronizing songs using the traditional setup with turntables or CD players. By making beat information an integrated part of our DJ software Mixxx, synchronization is done automatically and DJs can use more time to attend other parts of the mix. We provide an intuitive interface for mixing with beat information that allows the same level of flexibility as with the traditional setup but facilitates new creative ways of mixing.