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Dominikus Baur, Bernhard Hering, Sebastian Boring, Andreas Butz
Who Needs Interaction Anyway? Exploring Mobile Playlist Creation from Manual to Automatic
In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2011), Palo Alto, USA, Feb. 2011 (bib)

Currently available user interfaces for playlist generation allow creating playlists in various ways, within a spectrum from fully automatic to fully manual. However, it is not entirely clear how users interact with such systems in the field and whether different situations actually demand dif- ferent interfaces. In this paper we describe Rush 2, a music interface for mobile touch-screen devices that incorporates three interaction modes with varying degrees of automa- tion: Adding songs manually, in quick succession using the rush interaction technique or filling the playlist automati- cally. For all techniques various filters can be set. In a two- week diary study (with in-depth interaction logging) we gained insight into how people interact with music in their everyday lives and how much automation and interactivity are really necessary.