Discourse Analysis Evaluation Method for Expressive Musical Interfaces
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چکیده
The expressive and creative affordances of an interface are difficult to evaluate, particularly with quantitative methods. However, rigorous qualitative methods do exist and can be used to investigate such topics. We present a methodology based around user studies involving Discourse Analysis of speech. We also present an example of the methodology in use: we evaluate a musical interface which utilises vocal timbre, with a user group of beatboxers.
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