47,344 research outputs found
Taste or Addiction?: Using Play Logs to Infer Song Selection Motivation
Online music services are increasing in popularity. They enable us to analyze
people's music listening behavior based on play logs. Although it is known that
people listen to music based on topic (e.g., rock or jazz), we assume that when
a user is addicted to an artist, s/he chooses the artist's songs regardless of
topic. Based on this assumption, in this paper, we propose a probabilistic
model to analyze people's music listening behavior. Our main contributions are
three-fold. First, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study
modeling music listening behavior by taking into account the influence of
addiction to artists. Second, by using real-world datasets of play logs, we
showed the effectiveness of our proposed model. Third, we carried out
qualitative experiments and showed that taking addiction into account enables
us to analyze music listening behavior from a new viewpoint in terms of how
people listen to music according to the time of day, how an artist's songs are
listened to by people, etc. We also discuss the possibility of applying the
analysis results to applications such as artist similarity computation and song
recommendation.Comment: Accepted by The 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining (PAKDD 2017
Evaluation of voices foundation primer in primary schools
Music education has an important role in contributing towards society's needs in relation to the culture industries and continued development of active and constructive participation in musical activities. In addition to its role in developing musical skills many claims have been made regarding the benefits of music education in relation to a range of transferable skills
DJ-MC: A Reinforcement-Learning Agent for Music Playlist Recommendation
In recent years, there has been growing focus on the study of automated
recommender systems. Music recommendation systems serve as a prominent domain
for such works, both from an academic and a commercial perspective. A
fundamental aspect of music perception is that music is experienced in temporal
context and in sequence. In this work we present DJ-MC, a novel
reinforcement-learning framework for music recommendation that does not
recommend songs individually but rather song sequences, or playlists, based on
a model of preferences for both songs and song transitions. The model is
learned online and is uniquely adapted for each listener. To reduce exploration
time, DJ-MC exploits user feedback to initialize a model, which it subsequently
updates by reinforcement. We evaluate our framework with human participants
using both real song and playlist data. Our results indicate that DJ-MC's
ability to recommend sequences of songs provides a significant improvement over
more straightforward approaches, which do not take transitions into account.Comment: -Updated to the most recent and completed version (to be presented at
AAMAS 2015) -Updated author list. in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS) 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, May 201
From Page to Stage to Screen and Beyond
A group of Chicago youth media organizations have embarked on an evaluation process with adult program alumni to assess the degree to which hands-on media production and dissemination contributes to developing productive, independent, and engaged citizens. This report sets the stage for the evaluation, which began in late 2012 and will run through 2013, highlighting the work of youth media organizations in Chicago and exploring six dimensions, or outcome areas, that youth media organizations work within: journalism skills, news/media literacy, civic engagement, career development, youth development, and youth expression
Recommended from our members
Commentary on “Toward an Anthropology of Computer-Mediated, Algorithmic Forms of Sociality” (Eitan Wilf, author). With Nick Seaver.
- …