When using a mobile music player en-route, usually only little attention can be paid to its handling. Nonetheless it is desirable that all music stored in the device can be accessed quickly, and that tracks played in a sequence should match up. In this paper, we present an approach to satisfy these constraints: a playlist containing all tracks stored in the music player is generated such that i...

Video recordings of performances of the same piece with the intentions happiness, anger, sadness, and fear. Video clips in four viewing conditions were prepared, showing different parts of the player. Twenty subjects watched and rated 32 video clips (4 emotions x 2 performances x 4 conditions) without sound. What can the body movements reveal about a musician’s emotional intention? Sofia Dahl &...

We present a system for collaborative musical creation on mobile wireless networks. The work extends on simple peerto-peer file sharing systems towards ad-hoc mobility and streaming. It extends upon music listening from a passive act to a proactive, participative activity. The system consists of a network based interactive music engine and a portable rendering player. It serves as a platform fo...

This paper describes a mobile location based music player for outdoor sports like running, cycling or hiking. Athletes can boost their performance while listening to the right songs. The TIYU system augments trails with appropriate music for the athletes, either automatically using an intelligent selection mechanism or manually via a web based authoring tool. These so created trails can be shar...

We present an ongoing project building a multimodal dialogue system for a music player supporting natural, flexible interaction and collaborative behavior. Since the system functionalities include searching a big MP3 database, multimodal output is needed.

Multitasking situations exacerbate gait impairments and increase the risk of falling among people with Parkinson disease (PD). This study compared obstacle negotiation among 10 subjects with PD and 10 nonparkinsonian control (CTRL) subjects in two test conditions differentiated by the presence of music played through a personal music player. Subjects walked the length of a 10 m walkway at a sel...

A music browser MobileSOM with a new intuitive user interface designed for mobile devices with a built-in touch screen is presented. Music titles can be browsed, previewed and added to playlists picked from a Self-Organizing Map (SOM), on which similar pieces of music are grouped together. The songs from the created and editable playlists can be played on mobiles or streamed to an external play...

This demonstration illustrates how the methods developed in the MIR community can be used to provide real-time feedback to music users. By creating a genre classifier plugin for a popular media player we present users with relevant information as they play their songs. The plug-in can furthermore be used as a data collection platform. After informed consent from a selected set of users the plug...

purpose: this study aimed to identify and introduce the most important evaluation and production criteria of audio books based on users’ point of view.method: in terms of methodology, this study was among the quantitative studies and done with descriptive survey. the research instrument was researcher-made questionnaire. population was all users of audiolib website that used from audio books mo...