Project 3Alex Hughes; Gabe Persons; Lulu Wang; Pui MoFormer member: Corrie Colombero Mentor: Tiffany & Tony

http://www.etsy.com/listing/60230462/carnival-photography-ferris-wheel-photo

Shannon’s story

Shannon’s story

Shannon’s story

Identity• Product of past experiences within a

broader environmental context

Predisposition• Music evokes people’s memories

Research• Music reflects individual’s cultural

identity and characteristics (Stuart, 1996)

Research• Music reflects individual’s cultural

identity and characteristics (Stuart, 1996)

• Nostalgia helps us deal with our identity transitions (Hepper, Ritchie, Sedikides, & Wildschut, 2012)

Research• Music reflects individual’s cultural

identity and characteristics (Stuart, 1996)

• Nostalgia helps us deal with our identity transitions (Hepper, Ritchie, Sedikides, & Wildschut, 2012)

• Old news articles can cause nostalgia (Hepper, et al., 2012)

Insights• Music with images triggers more vivid

memories than either by themselves

Insights• Music with images triggers more vivid

memories than either by themselves• Pairing music with relevant images

can help reveal our personal and social identity

Insights• Music with images triggers more vivid

memories than either by themselves• Pairing music with relevant images

can help reveal our personal and social identity

• By understanding how our musical taste evolved, we can understand how our identity has changed

Concepts• Visual-auditory library

– Automatically pairs user’s music with personally and socially relevant imagery

Final Design

Sign in page

Import page

Location information

Main page

Editing page

Main page

2005 Springyear page.

List page

Main page

Strategies• Would be distributed through the

iTunes App Store

Strategies• Would be distributed through the

iTunes App Store• Partner with a news website

Strategies• Would be distributed through the

iTunes App Store• Partner with a news website• Easing integration with music listened

to before iTunes came out

Strategies• Would be distributed through the

iTunes App Store• Partner with a news website• Easing integration with music listened

to before iTunes came out• Sharing libraries between users

Appendix

Definitions• Identity: product of past experiences

couched within an environmental context• Management: Giving users a tool to create

a visio-auditory timeline, which they can use to interpret their identity.

Our Core• Broad core: recognizing identity

through music• Conceptual core: help users

recognize identity by building associations between music, personal context and social context.

Persona 1Patrick Helpmann

Age: 20

Profession: Waiter

Hobbies: Running, cooking, fishing

• Goal: Relax after getting home• Goal: Unpack the day’s events• Pain Point: Spending too much time organizing music

library.

“I’m on my feet all day. When I get home, I like to just sit at my desk and unwind.”

Persona 2Shannon Richie

Age: 29

Profession: Journalist

Hobbies: Piano, watching movies, photography

• Goal: Pass the time while traveling.• Goal: Emotionally connect to music.• Pain Point: Doesn’t want to view an overwhelming

interface.

“I can’t ride the subway without listening to music anymore; it’s just too boring.”

Survey• Most users listen to music with

Computer or Ipod/Iphone device• Computer listeners tended to do it to

relax• Mobile uses tended to be more into

music, and listen to it to pass the time and to connect to it.

Content in image shower• Facebook post• Personal/images( facebook,

computer, mobile device, tagged photos in facebook)

• Images relevant to songs• News relevant to year+ content of

facebook post+ location

Testing Results First test• Positives:

–People understood the interface–Got through it on their own–Easy to learn

• Negatives:– People didn’t understand how to

move back to year after they selected a month

Testing Results First test• Positives:

– People mainly understood the new features of the interface

– Got through it on their own• Negatives:

– People didn't realize you can interact with the presentation

– People didn't want to login through Facebook.

Reference• Easing integration with music listened to before iTunes came out• Hepper, E.G., Ritchie, T.D., Sedikides, C, Wildschut, T. (2012).

Odyssey's end: Lay conceptions of nostalgia reflect its original homeric meaning. Emotion, Vol 12(1), 102-119.

• Nicole, C. (2006). Nostalgia, Memory, and Modernity: Bridal Portraits in Contemporary Beijing. Visual Anthropology: Published in cooperation with the Commission on Visual Anthropology, Vol (19), Issue 1.

• Juhl, J., & Routledge, C. (2013). Nostalgia bolsters perceptions of a meaningful self in a meaningful world. In J. Hicks & C. Routledge (Eds.), The experience of meaning in life: Perspectives from the psychological sciences (pp. 213-226). New York, NY: Springer Press.

• Stuart, H. (1996). Questions of Cultural Identity. (Google eBook).• http://musicmachinery.com/2012/07/12/whats-your-musical-

stereotype/• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121174126.htm