TY - GEN
T1 - Intelligent agents and networked buttons improve free-improvised ensemble music-making on touch-screens
AU - Martin, Charles
AU - Gardner, Henry
AU - Swift, Ben
AU - Martin, Michael
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - We present the results of two controlled studies of freeimprovised ensemble music-making on touch-screens. In our system, updates to an interface of harmonically-selected pitches are broadcast to every touch-screen in response to either a performer pressing a GUI button, or to interventions from an intelligent agent. In our first study, analysis of survey results and performance data indicated significant effects of the button on performer preference, but of the agent on performance length. In the second follow-up study, a mixedinitiative interface, where the presence of the button was interlaced with agent interventions, was developed to leverage both approaches. Comparison of this mixed-initiative interface with the always-on button-plus-agent condition of the first study demonstrated significant preferences for the former. The different approaches were found to shape the creative interactions that take place. Overall, this research offers evidence that an intelligent agent and a networked GUI both improve aspects of improvised ensemble music-making.
AB - We present the results of two controlled studies of freeimprovised ensemble music-making on touch-screens. In our system, updates to an interface of harmonically-selected pitches are broadcast to every touch-screen in response to either a performer pressing a GUI button, or to interventions from an intelligent agent. In our first study, analysis of survey results and performance data indicated significant effects of the button on performer preference, but of the agent on performance length. In the second follow-up study, a mixedinitiative interface, where the presence of the button was interlaced with agent interventions, was developed to leverage both approaches. Comparison of this mixed-initiative interface with the always-on button-plus-agent condition of the first study demonstrated significant preferences for the former. The different approaches were found to shape the creative interactions that take place. Overall, this research offers evidence that an intelligent agent and a networked GUI both improve aspects of improvised ensemble music-making.
KW - Agent
KW - Collaborative interaction
KW - Creativity support tools
KW - Design
KW - Mobile music
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015050085&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2858036.2858269
DO - 10.1145/2858036.2858269
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2295
EP - 2306
BT - CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -