SoundAnchoring: Personalizing music spaces with anchors

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dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Leandro Collares de
dc.contributor.supervisorCoady, Yvonne
dc.contributor.supervisorGooch, Amy
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-01T18:39:35Z
dc.date.available2013-05-01T18:39:35Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-05-01
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Computer Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractSeveral content-based interfaces for music collection exploration rely on Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) to produce 2D or 3D visualizations of music spaces. In these visualizations, perceptually similar songs are clustered together. The positions of clusters containing similar songs, however, cannot be determined in advance due to particularities of the traditional SOM algorithm. In this thesis, I propose a variation on the traditional algorithm named anchoredSOM. This variation avoids changes in the positions of the aforementioned clusters. Moreover, anchoredSOM allows users to personalize the music space by choosing the locations of clusters containing per- ceptually similar tracks. This thesis introduces SoundAnchoring, an interface for music collection exploration featuring anchoredSOM. SoundAnchoring is evaluated by means of a user study. Results show that SoundAnchoring offers engaging ways to explore music collections and build playlists.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0984en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0413en_US
dc.description.proquestemailleandro.collares@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4585
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectMusic Information Retrievalen_US
dc.subjectHuman-Computer Interactionen_US
dc.subjectSelf-Organizing Mapsen_US
dc.subjectInterfaces for music collection personalizationen_US
dc.titleSoundAnchoring: Personalizing music spaces with anchorsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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