PartyVote: Democratic Music Selection in Co-Present Social Environments Group Members

In many informal social settings, disagreements about music choice can lead to conflict. Alternatively, some party attendees monopolize the music selection, subjecting everyone to their musical preferences. We present PartyVote, a democratic music voting system that provides both a traditional text based music selection system and a music library visualization to help users collaboratively choose what will be played during a social gathering (party). We describe the features and implementation of PartyVote and identify how our design addresses our four main design goals: system transparency, promoting awareness about decisions made by other users, interface intuitiveness, and system enjoyment. Perceived system strengths and weaknesses are discussed and finally we address future system developments planned.