active engagement with music has been associated with cognitive, emotional, and social
benefits, although measures of musicianship are typically limited to music training. A self …

We describe the design and deployment of Olly, a domestic music player that enables
people to re-experience digital music they listened to in the past. Olly uses its owner's Last …

This paper aims to present a systematic literature review of research in music information
seeking and its application to musical creativity and creative activities and in particular …

Personalization and context-awareness are highly important topics in research on Intelligent
Information Systems. In the fields of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music …

Recent, rapid changes in technology have resulted in a proliferation of choices for music
storage and access. Portable, web‐enabled music devices are widespread, and listeners …

Ethnographic techniques are useful tools for developing a fine-grained, context-based
understanding of user behavior. Because conventional ethnographic studies are time …

Music genres can reveal our preferences and are one of the main tools for retailers, libraries,
and people to organize music. In addition, the music industry uses genres as a key method …

Mood classification of music is an emerging domain of music information retrieval. In the
approach presented here features extracted from an audio file are used in combination with …

Data collection on the population is a key mode of public health management in the Global
South. This information is seen as a means to improve health metrics through welfare …

Our limited understanding of real‐life queries is an obstacle in developing music information
retrieval (MIR) systems that meet the needs of real users. This study aimed, by an empirical …