CHRIS GREENHALGH CHRIS.GREENHALGH@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Computer Science
GeoTracks: adaptive music for everyday journeys
Greenhalgh, Chris; Hazzard, Adrian; McGrath, Sean; Benford, Steve
Authors
ADRIAN HAZZARD Adrian.Hazzard@nottingham.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
Sean McGrath
STEVE BENFORD steve.benford@nottingham.ac.uk
Dunford Chair in Computer Science
Abstract
Listening to music on the move is an everyday activity for many people. This paper proposes geotracks and geolists, music tracks and playlists of existing music that are aligned and adapted to specific journeys. We describe how everyday walking journeys such as commutes to work and existing popular music tracks can each be analysed, decomposed and then brought together, using musical adaptations including skipping and repeating parts of tracks, dynamically remixing tracks and cross-fades. Using a naturalistic experiment we compared walking while listening to geotracks (dynamically adapted using GPS location information) to walking while listening to a fixed playlist. Overall, participants enjoyed the walk more when listening to the adaptive geotracks. However adapting the lengths of tracks appeared to detract from the experience of the music in some situations and for some participants, revealing trade-offs in achieving fine-grained alignment of music and walking journeys.
Citation
Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., McGrath, S., & Benford, S. (2016). GeoTracks: adaptive music for everyday journeys. In MM '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Multimedia Conference (42-46). https://doi.org/10.1145/2964284.2967181
Conference Name | ACM Multimedia 2016 |
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End Date | Oct 19, 2016 |
Acceptance Date | Jul 27, 2016 |
Publication Date | Oct 19, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Jul 25, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 19, 2016 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 42-46 |
Book Title | MM '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Multimedia Conference |
ISBN | 978-1-4503-3603-1 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/2964284.2967181 |
Keywords | Music; Soundtrack; Mobile; Pedestrian; Walk; Commute; Adaptive; Experience; Geotrack; Geolist |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/799215 |
Related Public URLs | http://www.acmmm.org/2016/ |
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