Reactive Music: When User Behavior affects Sounds in Real-Time

Christine Bauer; Florian Waldner

doi:10.1145/2468356.2468488

Reactive Music: When User Behavior affects Sounds in Real-Time

Christine Bauer, Florian Waldner

Human-Centered Computing

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

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Abstract

It is a natural predisposition of humans to respond to the rhythmical qualities of music. Now, we turn the setting around: The music responds to the user’s behavior. So-called ‘reactive music’ is a non-linear format of music that is able to react to the listener and her or his environment in real-time. Giant Steps is an iPhone application that implements such reactive music in correspondence to a jogger’s movements and the sounds in her or his environment. We hope that our approach contributes to a better understanding of ‘machine to user’ adaption, and to mobile sports applications in particular.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2013 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Pages	739-744
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468488
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Paris, France Duration: 27 Apr 2013 → 2 May 2013

Conference

Conference	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2013
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	27/04/13 → 2/05/13

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