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}
}