Discourse Analysis Evaluation Method for Expressive Musical Interfaces

Dan Stowell, Mark D. Plumbley, and Nick Bryan-Kinns

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The expressive and creative affordances of an interface aredifficult to evaluate, particularly with quantitative methods.However, rigorous qualitative methods do exist and can beused to investigate such topics. We present a methodologybased around user studies involving Discourse Analysis ofspeech. We also present an example of the methodologyin use: we evaluate a musical interface which utilises vocaltimbre, with a user group of beatboxers.

Citation

Dan Stowell, Mark D. Plumbley, and Nick Bryan-Kinns. 2008. Discourse Analysis Evaluation Method for Expressive Musical Interfaces. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179631

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Stowell2008,
 abstract = {The expressive and creative affordances of an interface aredifficult to evaluate, particularly with quantitative methods.However, rigorous qualitative methods do exist and can beused to investigate such topics. We present a methodologybased around user studies involving Discourse Analysis ofspeech. We also present an example of the methodologyin use: we evaluate a musical interface which utilises vocaltimbre, with a user group of beatboxers.},
 address = {Genoa, Italy},
 author = {Stowell, Dan and Plumbley, Mark D. and Bryan-Kinns, Nick},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179631},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {discourse analysis,evaluation,nime08,qualitative methods,voice},
 pages = {81--86},
 title = {Discourse Analysis Evaluation Method for Expressive Musical Interfaces},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2008/nime2008_081.pdf},
 year = {2008}
}