Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack
We present an in-the-wild project to design and study a mobile musical soundtrack that enhances the experience of visiting a sculpture park. As with soundtracks for films and games, the goal was to enhance the emotional and narrative aspects of the experience while remaining in the background. We de...
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| author | Hazzard, Adrian Benford, Steve Burnett, Gary |
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| description | We present an in-the-wild project to design and study a mobile musical soundtrack that enhances the experience of visiting a sculpture park. As with soundtracks for films and games, the goal was to enhance the emotional and narrative aspects of the experience while remaining in the background. We describe a compositional approach in which we first established a broad musical landscape before treating specific exhibits with detailed musical trajectories. Our study reveals how our soundtrack dramatically shaped visitors’ experiences while they remained largely unaware of its operation. We distil seven experiential factors to be addressed by mobile soundtracks alongside ten compositional guidelines. |
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| spelling | nottingham-285352020-05-04T20:11:02Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28535/ Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack Hazzard, Adrian Benford, Steve Burnett, Gary We present an in-the-wild project to design and study a mobile musical soundtrack that enhances the experience of visiting a sculpture park. As with soundtracks for films and games, the goal was to enhance the emotional and narrative aspects of the experience while remaining in the background. We describe a compositional approach in which we first established a broad musical landscape before treating specific exhibits with detailed musical trajectories. Our study reveals how our soundtrack dramatically shaped visitors’ experiences while they remained largely unaware of its operation. We distil seven experiential factors to be addressed by mobile soundtracks alongside ten compositional guidelines. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Hazzard, Adrian, Benford, Steve and Burnett, Gary (2015) Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack. In: Proceedings of the 33rd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 18 - 23, 2015, Seoul, Korea. (In Press) http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702236 |
| spellingShingle | Hazzard, Adrian Benford, Steve Burnett, Gary Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack |
| title | Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack |
| title_full | Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack |
| title_fullStr | Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack |
| title_short | Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack |
| title_sort | sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack |
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