An Interactive Music Playlist Generator that Responds to User Emotion and Context

This paper aims to demonstrate the mechanisms of a music recommendation system, and accompanying graphical user interface (GUI), that is capable of generating a playlist of songs based upon an individual’s emotion or context. This interactive music playlist generator has been designed as part of a broader system, Intended for mobile devices, which aims to suggest music based upon ‘how the user is feeling’ and ‘what the user is doing’ by evaluating real-time physiological and contextual sensory data using machine learning technologies. For instance, heart rate and skin temperature in conjunction with ambient light, temperature and global positioning satellite (GPS) could be used to a degree to infer one’s current situation and corresponding mood. At present, this interactive music playlist generator has the ability to conceptually demonstrate how a playlist can be formed in accordance with such physiological and contextual parameters. In particular, the affective aspect of the interface is visually represented as a two-dimensional arousal-valence space based upon Russell’s circumplex model of affect (1980).Context refers to environmental, locomotion and activity concepts, and are visually represented in the interface as sliders. These affective and contextual components are discussed in more detail next in Sections 2 and 3, respectively. Section 4 will demonstrate how an affective and contextual music playlist can be formed by interacting with the GUI parameters. For a comprehensive discussion in terms of the development of this research, refer to (Griffiths et al. 2013a, 2013b, 2015). Moreover, refer to Teng et al. (2013) and Yang et al. (2008) for related work in these broader research areas.

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Darryl Griffiths

Stuart Cunningham

Jonathan Weinel

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 275-276

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[1 ] Glyndŵr University

Mold Road

Wrexham LL11 2AW

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.53

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 12 - 14 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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D. GriffithsS. CunninghamJ. Weinel 2013a Automatic Music Playlist Generation Using Affective Computing Technologies ITA13 September 10-13 177 183
D. GriffithsCunninghamS. WeinelJ. 2013b A Discussion of Musical Features For Automatic Music Playlist Generation Using Affective Technologies AM13 September 16-20
D. GriffithsS. CunninghamJ. Weinel 2015 A Self-Report Study Which Gauges Perceived and Induced Emotion With Music ITA15 September 711 236 241
J. A. Russell 1980 A Circumplex Model of Affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 39 6 1161 1178
Y. C. TengY. S. KuoY. H. YangH. Chen 2013 A Large In-Situ Dataset For Context-Aware Music Recommendation For Smartphones ICMEW July 15-19 1 4
Y. H. YangY. C. LinH. T. ChengH. Chen 2008 Mr. Emo: Music Retrieval in the Emotion Plane MM ‘08 October 26 1003 1004

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[1] D. GriffithsS. CunninghamJ. Weinel 2013a Automatic Music Playlist Generation Using Affective Computing Technologies ITA13 September 10-13 177 183

[2] D. GriffithsCunninghamS. WeinelJ. 2013b A Discussion of Musical Features For Automatic Music Playlist Generation Using Affective Technologies AM13 September 16-20

[3] D. GriffithsS. CunninghamJ. Weinel 2015 A Self-Report Study Which Gauges Perceived and Induced Emotion With Music ITA15 September 711 236 241

[4] J. A. Russell 1980 A Circumplex Model of Affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 39 6 1161 1178

[5] Y. C. TengY. S. KuoY. H. YangH. Chen 2013 A Large In-Situ Dataset For Context-Aware Music Recommendation For Smartphones ICMEW July 15-19 1 4

[6] Y. H. YangY. C. LinH. T. ChengH. Chen 2008 Mr. Emo: Music Retrieval in the Emotion Plane MM ‘08 October 26 1003 1004

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