Cunningham, S. J., Nichols, D. M., Bainbridge, D., & Ali, H. (2014). Social music in cars. In Proceedings of ISMIR 2014, Fifteenth International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Taipei, Taiwan (pp. 457–462).
Abstract
This paper builds an understanding of how music is currently experienced by a social group travelling together in a car - how songs are chosen for playing, how music both reflects and influences the group’s mood and social interaction, who supplies the music, the hardware/software that supports song selection and presentation. This fine-grained context emerges from a qualitative analysis of a rich set of ethnographic data (participant observations and interviews) focusing primarily on the experience of in-car music on moderate length and long trips. We suggest features and functionality for music software to enhance the social experience when travelling in cars, and prototype and test a user interface based on design suggestions drawn from the data.
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© S.J. Cunningham, D.M. Nichols, D. Bainbridge, H. Ali. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
