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Study: Music Choices Change When They are Published
Giving out information on your music consumption publicly can change it.
A study finds that people are willing to put a lot of effort into maintaining a desirable public image of their music consumption. When information about music listening is published automatically, youth and young adults retain a notion of truth in presenting themselves: they rather change the music they listen to than "cheat" digitally.
Suvi Silfverberg, Lassi A. Liikkanen and Airi Lampinen from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT studied the experience of maintaining a profile in the online music service Last.fm. Twelve Finnish youth and young adults where interviewed on their use of this music-focused social network service and its extension, called "the scrobbler", that publishes information of music listened to by service users.
The researchers found that people make active efforts to control the image their online profile gives of them, especially when their music listening is published automatically. While automated sharing of behavior information provides new opportunities for online music services, it also affects the people listening to music:
"When an online service publishes behavioral information automatically, it is important to give users a chance to express and explain the meanings of their actions. Listening to a song doesn't necessarily mean that one likes it - or wants to be known as the kind of person who does", says Liikkanen.
The study was published in the internationally renowned 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in March in Hangzhou, China. The presented research was conducted as part of the Academy of Finland funded research project Musiquitous (http://musiq.fi). HIIT is a joint institute of Aalto University and University of Helsinki and is located in the capital region of Finland.
The publication is available at http://www.musiq.fi/publications
01.03.2011 Sounds of Helsinki receives funding from Aalto Media Factory
01.03.2011 Sounds of Helsinki receives funding from Aalto Media Factory
Aalto Media Factory granted HIIT 20k€ for development work to be done in UIx'
Musiquitous together with Adaptive computing group. The funding makes possible
of further development of Capella, a mobile music player, which logs interaction
and context data. Capella prototype will be used to research some of the
concepts of Sounds of Helsinki, a platform for location-based music services.
Field tests with users will be done in August 2011.
More about Sounds of Helsinki: http://mediafactory.aalto.fi/?p=786
More about Capella (later this spring): http://universe.hiit.fi/capella/
CHI2011 workshop ”Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design
CHI2011 workshop ”Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design
UIx will co-organize a workshop at upcoming CHI2011 conference: "Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design on Saturday, May 7, 2011, in Vancouver, BC, Canada
As our lives are more commonly mediated by information technology, an interactional perspective to how people find and construct privacy in socio-technical interactions has proven effective as a starting point for theoretical and empirical studies of privacy in everyday life in which online interactions have a significant role.
Yet, there remain important open questions regarding how to translate results based on this perspective into design practice. Addressing these questions requires a greater sensitivity to when interactional privacy is applicable, a better understanding of suitable research methods, and more effective means for communicating results to the researcher and practitioner communities. The goal of this workshop is to bring privacy theory and design together.
We seek participants from various domains for a multidisciplinary workshop to share their knowledge and views of both the theory and design of interactional privacy.
We invite 2-4 page submissions in ACM Ext. Abstracts format by January 26, 2011. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
(1) Theoretical and empirical study of interactional privacy.
(2) Ways of designing for interactional privacy.
More information available at http://networkedprivacy.wordpress.com
CHI2011 workshop on Appropriation and Creative Use
UIx will co-organize a workshop at upcoming CHI2011 conference: "Appropriation and Creative Use: Linking User Studies with Design":
Sunday 8 May 2011, Vancouver, Canada
End users of technology have a significant power in determining how technologies are used, adapted and re-purposed. Over the years, two communities – designers and user researchers – have been working on these topics but have had limited interaction with each other. This workshop provides a forum for the two to meet.
We invite 2-4 page submissions in ACM Ext. Abstracts format by 14 January 2011. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* user research methods that are suitable for gaining understanding about
different forms of appropriation
* theories and conceptualizations of how appropriations take place, how
different factors play part in them, and how they can be affected by design choices
* design principles that support appropriation
* approaches that link theories and concepts with design
* critical viewpoints on the prevailing appropriation-related design and
research practice
More information available at www.hiit.fi/u/asalovaa/chi2011-appropriation
03.12.2010 Paper accepted to CSCW’11
The paper describes how young users of a social networking service work hard and even change their music listening behavior to appear favorably in social media. The study was carried out as a part of Academy of Finland research project Musiquitous by University of Helsinki graduate student Suvi Silfverberg. Full paper will appear at http://musiq.fi before the conference.
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