This paper explores how we, as individuals, purposefully or serendipitously encounter “new music” (that is, music that we haven’t heard before) and relates these behaviours to music information retrieval activities such as music searching and music discovery via use of recommender systems. 41 participants participated in a three-day diary study, in which they recorded all incidents that brought...

BACKGROUND Diaries are the most commonly used adherence measurement method in home-based rehabilitation trials, yet their completion and validity varies widely between trials. We aimed to: (1) generate theory to explain this variation, (2) create an optimised diary and (3) evaluate the optimised diary's validity. METHODS Stage 1. DEVELOPMENT using a multiple case study approach, we collecte...

With the proliferation of digital reading technologies and their underlying ecosystem, practices of reading are currently undergoing significant changes. Despite the currency of the topic, we find there is little empirical research on how people incorporate digital reading technologies into their existing leisure-based reading practices. In this paper, we explore the place of ereading for pleas...

Although play behavior is difficult to define, it has been abundantly documented in the cetacean literature. Play behavior is prevalent among the various taxa and is exhibited by individuals of all age classes. However, it is often difficult to follow individuals, observe underwater behavior, and obtain multiple sightings of individuals when investigating free-ranging populations. Captive studi...

Context: The research about motivation in software engineering has provided important insights into characterizing factors and outcomes related to motivation. However, the complex relationships among these factors, including the moderating and mediating effects of organisational and individual characteristics, still require deeper explanatory investigation. Objective: Our general goal is to bui...

Gamification is commonly employed in designing interactive systems to enhance user engagement and motivations, or to trigger behavior change processes. Although some quantitative studies have been recently conducted aiming at measuring the effects of gamification on users’ behaviors and motivations, there is a shortage of qualitative studies able to capture the subjective experiences of users, ...

In this article we discuss re-retrie personal i ation ects and relate the task to rec ri lapse(s) in e We propose that entall it is lapses in e that i pede users success l re ndi the i ation the nee Our hesis is that learni ore about e lapses in non-c puti contexts and how people cope and recover from these lapses, we can better inform the design of PIM tools and improve the user's ability to r...

DOI: 10.1026/1617-6383.18.1.9 Abstract. Most communication studies on children and media have focused solely on television. Other popular media products such as narrative audio tapes have been neglected. The present article addresses factors that influence preschoolers’ selective exposure to these tapes. In line with past research, the emotional attractiveness of a story’s protagonist and some ...

This study investigated the extent to which the experience of daily stressors was related to women’s age and daily health symptomology, such as flu and cold symptoms. Respondents were 562 women (aged 25–74) who were a part of the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE), a telephone diary study examining daily stressful events. The respondents were interviewed by telephone on eight consecutiv...

In this paper, we present Smart Diary, a novel application integrating mobile sensing, activity inference, and natural language processing to facilitate novel knowledge representations of sensor data. Smart Diary records and analyzes a person’s daily life and transcribes those activities into human-readable outputs referred to a diary. Smart Diary makes four key contributions. First, to our bes...