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The mSpace Classical Music Explorer: Improving Access to Classical Music for Real People

schraefel, m. c., Smith, D. A., Russel, A., Owens, A., Harris, C. and Wilson, M. L. (2005) The mSpace Classical Music Explorer: Improving Access to Classical Music for Real People. In: V MUSICNETWORK OPEN WORKSHOP: Integration of Music in Multimedia Applications, July 4 and 5, 2005, Vienna, Austria.

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The mSpace Classical Music Explorer, available at http://demo.mspace.fm, is a Web-based explorer designed to improve access to the classical music domain, especially for those who do not have domain knowledge. We could characterize the approach as designed to support those who might say “I don’t know much about classical music, but I know what I like when I hear it.” For this group, browsing a list of domain terms is not helpful, because those terms do not have meaning for the group; key word search is equally unhelpful, since again the group does not yet know what they wish to specify. The mSpace classical music explorer addresses the access problem by providing a variety of direct manipulation techniques that enables exploration and selection without domain expertise. In the following paper, we describe these techniques. We also present results of evaluation informing the multimedia aspects of the interface, and briefly describe the mSpace model on which the explorer is based.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item
Creator/Authors:
m.c. schraefel
Daniel Alexander Smith
Alistair Russel
Alisdair Owens
Craig Harris
Max L. Wilson
Keywords:mspace, access, multimedia, preview cues
Research Group:Current ECS Groups > Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Date:2005
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Citations:Google Scholar: 3
Downloads (2010):72
ID Code:11033
Last Modified:06 Jan 2012 23:26
Deposited On:03 Jul 2005 by schraefel, monica

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A longer version of this paper, with more study detail is available as schraefel, m. c., Karam, M. and Zhao, S. (2003) Audio Preview Cues: Support for Exploration of Music Information Spaces. Technical Report ECSTR-IAM03-004, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton (2003).

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