Music genre meta-data is of paramount importance for the organization of music repositories. People use genre in a natural way when entering a music store or looking into music collections. Automatic genre classification has become a popular topic in music information retrieval research both with digital audio and symbolic data. This work focuses on the symbolic approach, bringing to music cogn...

European Journal of Information Systems (2012) 21, 469–478. doi:10.1057/ejis.2012.38 In this editorial I would like to make a general and effective call for more diversity in information systems research genres. This is a general call that goes beyond a particular journal and attempts to provide some practical guidelines. One can be sympathetic to the vision of opening up to a new wider set of ...

Designing digital games is primarily interaction design. This interaction manifests as a meaningful change in the game world. An aspect of a game can only change dynamically with a parametric model of this aspect available. One aspect of digital games is yet missing such a systematic description: the genre of a game is currently only determined by its designer. This paper introduces a new appro...

This study presents an initial attempt to uncover psychological and environmental factors influencing the academic performance of video gamers. We surveyed IT undergraduate students with respect to their video-gaming experiences. For the psychological factors at hand, we found that task awareness or the ability to stay focused on business activities has the potential to influence positively aca...

Since its introduction to EAP theory in the 1980s, the concept of genre has proven to be a rigorous theoretical construct for a deeperunderstanding of the nature of academic discourse. However, the inherent potential of this concept as a means of classifying and categorizing academic texts has also given rise to what we have called “the misconception of homogeneity”. Criticizing this misconcept...

This paper describes the integration of two different types of support to the coordination of organizational activities. On the one hand, we have network-based Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS) supporting a cooperative coordination effort. On the other hand, we find Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), supporting the individual effort to coordinate. Considering that organizational efficiency and e...

Machine translation (MT) has been both praised and criticized since the 1930’s when it was first introduced. Today, MT − much improved since then, is a vital tool for the human translator, although not without its problems. One important unresolved issue is the success of MT for different text types. In the present study, we compare the performance of German-English machine translation in four ...

The Bag-of-Frames (BoF) approach has been widely used in music genre classification. In this approach, music genres are represented by statistical models of low-level features computed on short frames (e.g. in the tenth of ms) of audio signal. In the design of such models, a common procedure in BoF approaches is to represent each music genre by sets of instances (i.e. frame-based feature vector...

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) types depict the psychological preferences by which a person perceives the world and make decisions. There are 4 principal functions through which the people see the world: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. These functions along with the Introverted\Extroverted nature of the person, there are 16 personalities types, the humans are divided into. Here...

Since the early days of the information era, digital music has been becoming one of the most consumed types of media, introducing the need for content-based tools that can search, browse, and retrieve music. Here we describe a method that can quantify similarities between musical genres in an unsupervised fashion, and computes networks of similarities between different musicians or musical styl...