Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment

Abstract

Abstract. We live in a world of continuous information overflow, but the quality of information and communication is suffering. Single value devices contribute to information and communication quality by focussing on one explicit, relevant piece of information. The information is decoupled from a computer and represented in an object, integrated into daily life. The contribution of this paper is on different levels: Firstly, we identify single value devices as a class, and, secondly, illustrate it through examples in a survey. Thirdly, we collect characterizations of single value devices into a taxonomy. The taxonomy also provides a collection of design choices that allow one to more easily find new combinations or alternatives, and that facilitate the design of new, meaningful, effective and working objects. Finally, when we want to step from experimental examples to commercializable products, a number of issues become relevant that are identified and discussed in the remainder of this paper.

“Hearing music as . . .”: Metaphors evoked by the sound of classical music.

“…Currently, more than 30 million songs are available on streaming platforms. Because we could not base our study on all of them, we focused on a selection of the musical excerpts expertly handpicked from a previous study (Eliard et al, 2012). We aimed to cover a wide variety of the different styles and composers, reflecting Western classical music.…”

“…We assembled a set of 36 classical music excerpts that featured a variety of musical styles and emotional connotations, sufficient to control for the potential effect of these factors. Music experts from the Geneva School of Music handpicked these excerpts from a much larger set of musical excerpts tested and controlled in a set of previous studies, to represent a wide diversity of Western classical music (Eliard, 2017; Eliard, Labbé, & Grandjean, 2012). These excerpts included most of the characteristic styles of Western classical music, for example, baroque, classicism, romanticism, postromanticism, and modern ().…”

“…The excerpts were also selected to represent all of GEMS subscales (Zentner et al, 2008). Specifically, from a series of previous studies and the musical qualities of each excerpt, four musical pieces were chosen by music experts for each of the nine GEMS subscales based on ratings acquired in previous studies (Eliard, 2017; Eliard et al, 2012; ). The final music list consisted of 36 excerpts.…”