The Use of Conventional and New Music Media: Implications for Future Technologies (Brown et al.)
Abstract: A number of new technologies such as the MP3 music compression format and the Napster file sharing
network are creating new opportunities for consumers’ activities with music media. In this paper we explore
current practice with both conventional and new forms of media in order to better understand what the future may
hold for music consumers. We interviewed 36 music enthusiasts: 12 teenaged and 12 adult conventional music
users, and 12 early adopters of MP3 technologies. The results show that rather than new music technologies
replacing the old, they supplement current formats by allowing users to exploit a different set of affordances. We
discuss these uses drawing implications for new music devices, services and software.
Push!Music: Intelligent Music Sharing on Mobile Devices (Jacobsson)
Push!Music is a music sharing application which runs on
mobile devices with wireless ad-hoc networking. Here
music files take the form of autonomous software agents
than take advantage of meta-data to build up a personal
identity through other agents that it encounters. They then
use this information to move autonomously between the
devices of users in the proximity, looking for the
environment that suits them best. Users can also make
active personal recommendations by collaborative sharing
or “pushing” music to other users in the vicinity.
MobiTip: Using Bluetooth as a Mediator of Social Context (Åsa Rudström)
MobiTip is a social mobile service where comments or tips
given by one person are made available to another when
user devices connect on the fly, when users approach connection
hotspots, or on demand. Bluetooth connectivity is
used to form a social space of nearby devices that is used as
key input for the collaborative filtering of tips. The social
space is visualized to show other users nearby, thereby illustrating
where tips come from and why they are presented
at some particular point in time.
