Facilitating Mobile Music Sharing and Social Interaction with Push!Music

  • Authors:
  • Maria Hakansson;Mattias Rost;Mattias Jacobsson;Lars Erik Holmquist

  • Affiliations:
  • Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, Sweden;Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, Sweden;Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, Sweden;Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Push!Music is a novel mobile music listening and sharing system, where users automatically receive songs that have autonomously recommended themselves from nearby players depending on similar listening behaviour and music history. Push!Music also enables users to wirelessly send songs between each other as personal recommendations. We conducted a two-week preliminary user study of Push!Music, where a group of five friends used the application in their everyday life. We learned for example that the shared music in Push!Music became a start for social interaction and that received songs in general were highly appreciated and could be looked upon as "treats'.