The trends of miniaturization and increasing storage capabilities for portable music players made it possible to carry increasingly more music on small portable devices, but it also introduced negative consequences for the user interface and navigation. Finding music in large collections can be hard if one does not know exactly what to look for. In this paper a novel user interface to browse an...

OBJECTIVES To determine the output levels of a commercially available MPEG layer-3 (MP3) player and to evaluate changes in hearing after 1 hour of listening to the MP3 player. DESIGN First, A-weighted sound pressure levels (measured in decibels [dBA]) for 1 hour of pop-rock music on an MP3 player were measured on a head and torso simulator. Second, after participants listened to 1 hour of pop...

To make human computer interfaces more immersive and intuitive, a new dimension could be added. Real-time brain state recognition from EEG including emotion recognition and level of concentration recognition would make an access to information more adaptive and personalized. Modern EEG techniques give us an easy and portable way to monitor brain activities by using suitable signal processing an...

The Gamelan Sampul is a laptop sleeve with embedded circuitry that allows users to practice playing Javanese gamelan instruments without a full set of instruments. It is part of a larger project that aims to develop a set of portable and mobile tools for learning, recording and performing classical Javanese gamelan music. The accessibility of a portable Javanese gamelan set introduces the music...

Many scientists play music. I'm one. I'm the rhythm guitar player, song writer, and singer in The Amygdaloids. We play original music about mind and brain and mental disorders. The songs are inspired by research that I do, as well as general ideas in the brain and cognitive sciences, and the philosophy of mind. For me, playing music is not a distraction to other life obligations. It makes me be...

Despite the fact that people are increasingly listening to music electronically, the core interface of the common tools for playing the music have had very little improvement. In particular the tools for intra-track navigation have remained basically static, not taking advantage of recent studies into the field of audio jisting, summarising and segmentation. We introduce a novel mechanism for m...

Article History: The present study used a between subjects, post-test only design to investigate the impact of Submitted on 21 April 2011 background music (low tempo music vs. high tempo music) on arousal and aggression of a player playing a first person shooter video game: Counter-Strike. Arousal was measured using Skin Conductance Level (SCL) and aggression using an Implicit Attitude Test (IA...

With close to 1.5 billion cellular handsets in use and worldwide sales last year of over 500 million units, mobile phones are by far the most prevalent mobile device. Second only to the mobile phone, the MP3 player is the most visible and influential mobile device. Candidates to convergence with the mobile phone, such as the SonyEricsson W800c Walkman, indicate the significant impact the techno...

This paper addresses the issue of automatically organizing a possibly large music collection for intuitive access. We present an approach to cluster tracks in a hierarchical manner and to automatically find representative pieces of music for each cluster on each hierarchy level. To this end, audio signal-based features are complemented with features derived via Web content mining in a novel way...