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Mr ADRIAN HAZZARD's Outputs (44)

Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., & Burnett, G. Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack. Presented at Proceedings of the 33rd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems

We present an in-the-wild project to design and study a mobile musical soundtrack that enhances the experience of visiting a sculpture park. As with soundtracks for films and games, the goal was to enhance the emotional and narrative aspects of the e... Read More about Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack.

You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., & Burnett, G. You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack. Presented at 14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Musical soundtracks have great potential to enhance mobile walking experiences such as tours and guides, much as they already do for films and games. They also raise new challenges for composers as the music must fit a given landscape and respond to... Read More about You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack.

Walk this way: Musically guided walking experiences (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., & Burnett, G. (2014, April). Walk this way: Musically guided walking experiences. Presented at CHI '14: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada

Musical soundtracks will be important features of future locative experiences from tours to games. We present a study designed to uncover potential relationships between higher-level musical structures such as harmony, melody, timbre, dynamic intensi... Read More about Walk this way: Musically guided walking experiences.

Musical intersections across the digital and physical (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., & Kwon, H. Musical intersections across the digital and physical. Presented at DMRN+9: Digital Music Research Network (EPSRC)

Digital musical experiences are commonplace, everyday occurrences for many of us. Digital technologies facilitate where, how and what we access, and they increasingly offer new methods for capturing, sharing, enhancing and supporting such musical exp... Read More about Musical intersections across the digital and physical.