Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design

This series of studies make it clear that a wide range of both physical and digital resources are involved in domestic music consumption. The selection of digital resources is particularly evident, and it can be observed that domestic music consumption is a fragmented business, taking advantage of m...

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Main Authors: Chamberlain, Alan, Crabtree, Andy
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Published: Springer 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32808/
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description This series of studies make it clear that a wide range of both physical and digital resources are involved in domestic music consumption. The selection of digital resources is particularly evident, and it can be observed that domestic music consumption is a fragmented business, taking advantage of many different "channels'' for getting, using and preparing music. While there are not a series of common channels, each home displayed a variety of methods in respect to using metadata in multiple different modalities: regardless, the activities involved in getting, using and preparing music cohere through a noticeable, emergent set of workflows. We find that not only does metadata support searching, as one might expect, but also it pervades all parts of the workflow and is used in real-time as a reflexive artifact and in terms of its future perceived/prescribed use. The findings of the research raise a series of possibilities and issues that form the basis for understanding and designing for metadata use.
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spelling nottingham-328082020-05-04T17:46:50Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32808/ Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design Chamberlain, Alan Crabtree, Andy This series of studies make it clear that a wide range of both physical and digital resources are involved in domestic music consumption. The selection of digital resources is particularly evident, and it can be observed that domestic music consumption is a fragmented business, taking advantage of many different "channels'' for getting, using and preparing music. While there are not a series of common channels, each home displayed a variety of methods in respect to using metadata in multiple different modalities: regardless, the activities involved in getting, using and preparing music cohere through a noticeable, emergent set of workflows. We find that not only does metadata support searching, as one might expect, but also it pervades all parts of the workflow and is used in real-time as a reflexive artifact and in terms of its future perceived/prescribed use. The findings of the research raise a series of possibilities and issues that form the basis for understanding and designing for metadata use. Springer 2016-04-13 Article PeerReviewed Chamberlain, Alan and Crabtree, Andy (2016) Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing . pp. 1-13. ISSN 1617-4917 Music ethnography design domestic data metadata ethnomethodology workflow searching search semantic research HCI CSCW CHI http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00779-016-0911-2 doi:10.1007/s00779-016-0911-2 doi:10.1007/s00779-016-0911-2
spellingShingle Music
ethnography
design
domestic
data
metadata
ethnomethodology
workflow
searching
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semantic
research
HCI
CSCW
CHI
Chamberlain, Alan
Crabtree, Andy
Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design
title Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design
title_full Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design
title_fullStr Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design
title_full_unstemmed Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design
title_short Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design
title_sort searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design
topic Music
ethnography
design
domestic
data
metadata
ethnomethodology
workflow
searching
search
semantic
research
HCI
CSCW
CHI
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32808/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32808/