Usability

MUMT611

Papers

Blandford, A., and H. Stelmaszewska. 2002. Usability of musical digital libraries: A multimodal analysis. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. 231-7.

Futrelle, J., and J. Stephen Downie. 2002. Interdisciplinary communities and research issues in music information retrieval. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. 215-21.

Kim, J.-Y., and N. Belkin. 2002.Categories of music description and search terms and phrases used by non-music experts. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. 209-14.

Pauws, S., and B. Eggen. 2002. PATS: Realization and user evaluation of an automatic playlist generator. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. 222-230.

Taheri-Panah, S., and A. MacFarlane.2004. Music Information Retrieval systems: Why do individuals use them and what are their needs? International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.

Uitdenbogerd, A., and R. Schyndel. 2002. A review of factors affecting music recommender success. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. 204-8.

Uitdenbogerd, A., and Y. Yap. 2003. Was Parsons right? An experiment in usability of music representations for melody-based music retrieval. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.

Vignoli, F. 2004. Digital music interaction concepts: A user study. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.

Links

• Usability.gov
• Usability Engineering (BSU)
• Improving Web Site Usability and Appeal (Kevin Keeker, Microsoft)
• The usability engineering approach (Robert Remington)
• Testing methods and tools