Considering Audience's View Towards an Evaluation Methodology for Digital Musical Instruments

Jerônimo Barbosa, Filipe Calegario, Verônica Teichrieb, Geber Ramalho, and Patrick McGlynn

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2012
• Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Keywords: Empirical methods, quantitative, usability testing and evaluation, digital musical instruments, evaluation methodology, Illusio
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178209 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

The authors propose the development of a more complete Digital Music Instrument (DMI) evaluation methodology, which provides structured tools for the incremental development of prototypes based on user feedback. This paper emphasizes an important but often ignored stakeholder present in the context of musical performance: the audience. We demonstrate the practical application of an audience focused methodology through a case study (`Illusio'), discuss the obtained results and possible improvements for future works.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Barbosa2012,
 abstract = {The authors propose the development of a more complete Digital Music Instrument (DMI) evaluation methodology, which provides structured tools for the incremental development of prototypes based on user feedback. This paper emphasizes an important but often ignored stakeholder present in the context of musical performance: the audience. We demonstrate the practical application of an audience focused methodology through a case study (`Illusio'), discuss the obtained results and possible improvements for future works.},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan},
 author = {Jer{\^o}nimo Barbosa and Filipe Calegario and Ver{\^o}nica Teichrieb and Geber Ramalho and Patrick McGlynn},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178209},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Empirical methods, quantitative, usability testing and evaluation, digital musical instruments, evaluation methodology, Illusio},
 publisher = {University of Michigan},
 title = {Considering Audience's View Towards an Evaluation Methodology for Digital Musical Instruments},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2012/nime2012_174.pdf},
 year = {2012}
}