An In-Situ Study of Real-Life Listening Context
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چکیده
Current models of musical mood are based on clean, noiseless data that does not correspond to real-life listening experiences. We conducted an experience-sampling study collecting in-situ data of listening experiences. We show that real-life music listening experiences are far from the homogeneous experiences used in current models of musical mood.
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