Investigating the interactions between individuals and music technologies within contemporary modes of music consumption

Investigating the interactions between individuals and music technologies within contemporary modes of music consumption

Investigating Relationships between Music, Emotions, Personality, and Music-induced Movement

Listening to music makes us to move in various ways. The characteristics of these movements can be affected by several aspects, such as individual factors, musical features, or the emotional content of the music. In a study in which we presented 60 individuals with 30 musical stimuli representing different genres of popular music and recorded their movement with an optical motion capture system...

The Relationship between Socio-Economic Status and Music Consumption among the Youth in Tehran

This research studies the relationship between socio-economic status and music consumption among the youth. The socio-economic indexes include prestige, power and property from Max Weber's Theory. This survey covers a researcher-made questionnaire along with 200 young ones between 15-35 years of age living in Tehran (areas: Elahieh, Jourdan, Apadana, Enghlab, Kianshahr, Ra-ahan). Nine hypothese...

Investigating the Relationship Between Diversity in Music Consumption Behavior and Cultural Dimensions: A Cross-Country Analysis

Diversity in recommendation lists or sets has shown to be an important feature in recommender systems as it can counteract on negative effects such as choice difficulty and choice overload. However, how much diversity a recommendation list needs to provide is not clearly defined. By analyzing music listening behavior of listeners in 47 countries, we show that diversity needs may be cultural dep...

Multimedia Technologies for Enriched Music Performance, Production, and Consumption

I nternet access, mobile devices, social networks, and automated multimedia technologies enable sophisticated information analysis and access. They have radically changed how people find entertainment, discover new interests, and generally express themselves online—seemingly without any physical or social barriers. Furthermore, thanks to the increasing affordability of sensing, storage, and sha...