MusicSpace : a multi perspective browser for music albums

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Müller, Jörg ; Krüger, Antonio:
MusicSpace : a multi perspective browser for music albums.
In: Butz, Andreas ; Fisher, Brian ; Krüger, Antonio ; Olivier, Patrick (ed.): Smart Graphics. - Berlin : Springer , 2006 . - pp. 254-256 . - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 4073 )
ISBN 978-3-540-36293-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11795018_26

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Imagine a user entering her favorite music store. She does not know exactly what she is looking for, and the albums are laid out according to some schema. If the store is good, similar albums are placed near to each other, and if she understands how the albums are ordered, she can find albums she is looking for. But there are many dimensions the albums could be ordered by: genre, artist, release date, region, etc. When the collection is digitally available, e.g. as her personal MP3
collection or at an online music store, the spatial arrangement of the items could be adjusted according to her current search criteria. We propose to layout the albums according to Conceptual Spaces and suggest a navigation method within this representation with a Zoomable User Interface. This approach scales both to different display sizes, so the same interface can be used on a mobile MP3 player, a desktop PC or a wall-size display, as to different domains, like picture galleries, restaurants, wine stores, book stores etc.