Music making and listening are a clear example of a human activity that is above all interactive and social, two big challenges for novel HCI paradigms. Nowadays, however, listening to music is usually still a passive, non-interactive experience. Quoting John Sloboda " In highly industrialized societies, we listen to more music, but we make less " [1]. Even modern devices do not allow for inter...

We evaluate the music taste representation computation and song matching capabilities of Jukefox, a smart music player for Android developed at the distributed computing group at ETH Zürich. We then use this music taste representation for single persons to create group playlists. A group playlist contains the aggregated songs of all group members, ordered from best to worst. The more group memb...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test the effect of individualized music on agitation for homedwelling patients with dementia. Method: One group pre-post test was used for research design and a total of 26 subjects participated in this study. Individualized music intervention was subjects’ listening to their preferred music for 30 minutes prior to peak agitation time twice a week for a...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to ascertain whether listening to music might cause changes in human stability and be useful in fall prevention and rehabilitation. The aim was also to find what percentage of subjects without neurologic signs or symptoms associated with falling had less than ideal stability. DESIGN Computer dynamic posturography (CDP) provided stability scores in 266 subj...

Numerous music cultures use nonsense syllables to represent percussive sounds. Covert reciting of these syllable sequences along with percussion music aids active listeners in keeping track of music. Owing to the acoustic dissimilarity between the representative syllables and the referent percussive sounds, associative learning is necessary for the oral representation of percussion music. We us...

introduction: music can elicit powerful emotional responses, the neural correlates of which have not been properly understood. an important aspect about the quality of any musical piece is its ability to elicit a sense of excitement in the listeners. in this study, we investigated the neural correlates of boredom evoked by music in human subjects. methods: we used eeg recording in nine subjects...