Mobile DJ: a Tangible, Mobile Platform for Active and Collaborative Music Listening

Kenneth W.K. Lo, Chi Kin Lau, Michael Xuelin Huang, Wai Wa Tang, Grace Ngai, and Stephen C.F. Chan

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Mobile DJ is a music-listening system that allows multiple users to interactand collaboratively contribute to a single song over a social network. Activelistening through a tangible interface facilitates users to manipulate musicaleffects, such as incorporating chords or ``scratching'' the record. Acommunication and interaction server further enables multiple users to connectover the Internet and collaborate and interact through their music. User testsindicate that the device is successful at facilitating user immersion into theactive listening experience, and that users enjoy the added sensory input aswell as the novel way of interacting with the music and each other.

Citation:

Kenneth W.K. Lo, Chi Kin Lau, Michael Xuelin Huang, Wai Wa Tang, Grace Ngai, and Stephen C.F. Chan. 2013. Mobile DJ: a Tangible, Mobile Platform for Active and Collaborative Music Listening. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178598

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Lo2013,
 abstract = {Mobile DJ is a music-listening system that allows multiple users to interactand collaboratively contribute to a single song over a social network. Activelistening through a tangible interface facilitates users to manipulate musicaleffects, such as incorporating chords or ``scratching'' the record. Acommunication and interaction server further enables multiple users to connectover the Internet and collaborate and interact through their music. User testsindicate that the device is successful at facilitating user immersion into theactive listening experience, and that users enjoy the added sensory input aswell as the novel way of interacting with the music and each other.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Kenneth W.K. Lo and Chi Kin Lau and Michael Xuelin Huang and Wai Wa Tang and Grace Ngai and Stephen C.F. Chan},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178598},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Mobile, music, interaction design, tangible user interface},
 month = {May},
 pages = {217--222},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Mobile DJ: a Tangible, Mobile Platform for Active and Collaborative Music Listening},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_81.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}