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Dominikus Baur
The Songs of Our Past: Working with Listening Histories
In Adjunct Proceedings (Doctoral Consortium) of the 29th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Vancouver, Canada, May 2011 (bib)

Music listening histories are portraits of a personâs taste in music. In my research I am exploring this type of data and how user interfaces can be enhanced with it. In this Doctoral Consortium paper I describe my approach towards this goal: Statistical analysis and casual information visualizations can help in finding relevant patterns and aspects in listening histories. Making them available to regular users and asking what they learned about themselves gives us the chance to find out more about their listening on the minute level of songs. Contextual information such as photos or calendar entries can help trigger memories. In this paper I describe the motivation and goals of my research and my current status. In the end, both the HCI community and end users can benefit from more convenient and sophisticated interfaces.