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Ideas for further development
During the study, we received a wide variety of ideas for the future
development of the concept including mood pictures, music selection,
playlists, and ideas going beyond the basic mood pictures. In the
following, these findings have been explained in more detail.
Based on the user study, there was a clear need to let the users
customize picture and music associations. As shown above, the participants
preferred to listen to different types of music in a certain mood and/or
context. Some participants preferred to have pictures without people,
whereas some felt the best solution to represent moods would be to use
only pictures of people. As the built-in picture and music associations
were not suitable for all users, a better approach would be to allow users to
add their own pictures to the system and map them to moods and seed
songs. Unless the number of personal pictures is limited, there should also
be a way to organize them hierarchically. Another interesting addition to
the prototype would be to select multiple mood pictures to listen to a
mixed playlist.
In addition to adding their own pictures to represent moods, the
participants were also interested in changing the seed songs for the built-in
mood pictures. These mood picture and music associations should be
stored in the system for later access. Many participants were also
interested in using pictures to categorize their own personal music
collection.
The lack of a text based search for finding specific tracks was seen as a
major shortcoming in the prototype. Several participants would have
wanted to listen to full albums from selected artists, and browsing the
whole music catalogue was also mentioned. Some participants wished to
get album recommendations from which one could then pick individual
songs for the playlist. The use of mood pictures to search for music in a
specific language was mentioned, and many participants would also have
wanted to see more information regarding individual tracks.
In addition to the basic mood pictures, the prototype could also contain
pictures of well-known artists, which would then be used to access their
music. There are many business opportunities to use this type of additional
content, and some of the content could even come automatically from the
record labels (e.g., “Michael Jackson collection from the 90s”).
The idea of personalizing the existing mood pictures was also brought
up. There could be an additional object layer on top of each picture, and
this layer would then be changed depending on the user. For example, in
the case of the “Driving on a highway” picture the user could add an
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