Stress Model for music discovery

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1. Music lovers who actively discover new music need bookmarks that divide individual songs into different sections, because seconds & minutes are ineffective indicators of song position and inject stress into the music discovery process. Borui Wang Cecilia Wu Huisi Li Tony Jin
2. BOOKMARKS STRESS Efficiency Confidence Newness Time-consuming Uncertainty Boredom Explore Purchase Playlist Drop/Remove USER Stress Model
3. Related products and services Spotify/Rdio/Grooveshark - music discovery through popular/top lists & friends' playlists, full length "preview" Pandora - music discovery through automatically generated playlist of similar music, limited preview ability Itunes - limited preview time and vey immediate review oppurtunities for a large online music library Infinite Jukebox - explores music segmentation, infinitely loops a song at viable breakpoints
4. • People who are discovering/purchasing new music experience stress when they can't preview the entire song, which might cause them not enjoying their purchase later. • People who listen to a large volume of songs feel stressful when they have to spend lots of time listening to the whole songs to choose which to download or put into their playlists. • Seconds & minutes is not a good unit of length for music tracks. • Existing services usually offer either a single short preview or preview the entire song. Trends and/or NOI about existing technology
5. Opportunities & intriguing question you could answer • Dividing segments of music by bookmarks can reduce listeners' stress by giving more control to the listeners during the exploring process. • Music bookmarking might reduce the stress of the listeners who have to to repeated sections in songs by reducing the amount of repetitions. • Visulization of sonud segments might provide more intuitive musical cues and reduce uncertainy for music discovery.