We present an ongoing project building a multimodal dialogue system for a music player supporting natural, flexible interaction and collaborative behavior. Since the system functionalities include searching a big MP3 database, multimodal output is needed.

Multitasking situations exacerbate gait impairments and increase the risk of falling among people with Parkinson disease (PD). This study compared obstacle negotiation among 10 subjects with PD and 10 nonparkinsonian control (CTRL) subjects in two test conditions differentiated by the presence of music played through a personal music player. Subjects walked the length of a 10 m walkway at a sel...

A music browser MobileSOM with a new intuitive user interface designed for mobile devices with a built-in touch screen is presented. Music titles can be browsed, previewed and added to playlists picked from a Self-Organizing Map (SOM), on which similar pieces of music are grouped together. The songs from the created and editable playlists can be played on mobiles or streamed to an external play...

This demonstration illustrates how the methods developed in the MIR community can be used to provide real-time feedback to music users. By creating a genre classifier plugin for a popular media player we present users with relevant information as they play their songs. The plug-in can furthermore be used as a data collection platform. After informed consent from a selected set of users the plug...

purpose: this study aimed to identify and introduce the most important evaluation and production criteria of audio books based on users’ point of view.method: in terms of methodology, this study was among the quantitative studies and done with descriptive survey. the research instrument was researcher-made questionnaire. population was all users of audiolib website that used from audio books mo...

Music listening has long-standing ties to mental health, positive affective states, and wellbeing. Even outside of clinical contexts, music is increasingly being explored as a costeffective, ubiquitous way to support emotion regulation and stress reduction in people’s everyday lives. Games have also been shown to have the capability to improve player well-being in certain contexts. However, the...

We present here Good Vibrations, a tool for music tagging, exploration and discovery, shaped as a media player plugin, and intended for home users. The plugin allows the quick ”invention” of concepts and properties that can be tagged to songs. After some hours of active tagging, the plugin starts automatically proposing the proper tags to the user, who is also allowed to correct them. The plugi...

In this paper we explore connections between players’ preferences in gameplay and their desire to listen game music. Music always takes place cultural contexts the activity of music listening is likewise entangled with versatile practices. This arguably evident case since primary context encountering it active participatory experience gameplay. By analyzing survey data (N = 403) collected from ...