• DocumentCode
    2056225
  • Title

    Associating Avatars with Musical Genres

  • Author

    Holm, Jukka ; Siirtola, Harri ; Laaksonen, Lauri

  • Author_Institution
    Human-Centered Technol., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    26-29 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    186
  • Lastpage
    193
  • Abstract
    Accessing personal and online music libraries with thousands of songs has become an everyday activity. Instead of textual lists, the libraries can also be accessed using graphical visualizations such as adaptive avatars. To develop the idea further, we designed 17 stereotypical avatars representing different musical genres. To study how well the avatars were recognized, an online questionnaire with 71 participants was arranged. This paper discusses the design of the avatars in more detail, explains which musical genres were selected for the study and why, and presents the results of the questionnaire.
  • Keywords
    avatars; data visualisation; libraries; music; graphical visualizations; musical genres; online music libraries; stereotypical avatars; Art; Avatars; Heating; Image color analysis; Libraries; Metals; Visualization; avatar; musical genre; playlist; questionnaire; visualization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conference
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • ISSN
    1550-6037
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7846-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IV.2010.36
  • Filename
    5571304