Musical Elicitation Methods

Survey of Preference Elicitation Methods

As people increasingly rely on interactive decision support systems to choose products and make decisions, building effective interfaces for these systems becomes more and more challenging due to the explosion of on-line information, the initial incomplete user preference and user’s cognitive and emotional limitations of information processing. How to accurately elicit user’s preference thereby...

Evolutionary Methods for Musical Composition

We discuss the use of genetic algorithms (GAs) for the generation of music. We explain the structure of a typical GA, and outline existing work on the use of GAs in computer music. We propose that the addition of domain-specific knowledge can enhance the quality and speed of production of GA results, and describe two systems which exemplify this. However, we conclude that GAs are not ideal for ...

An evaluation of sociolinguistic elicitation methods

This study investigates the effects of different elicitation methods on the speech of a single speaker of San Francisco English who is participating in a systematic set of vocalic sound changes known as the California Vowel Shift [6]. We contrast data obtained from classic sociolinguistic interview methods with data from self-recordings, as well as data from various methods for eliciting sponta...

Social Psychological Methods of Emotion Elicitation

Requirements Elicitation with Indirect Knowledge Elicitation Techniques: Comparison of Three Methods

In this paper we describe a case study comp0Ting the effectiveness of three indirect knowledge elicitation techniques: repertory grid analysis, multi-dimensional scaling, and hierarchical clustering. These techniques are used in situations where it is difficult for the expert to articulate their knowledge in response to direct questions. The techniques were compared in terms of the number of at...