This Music Reminds Me of a Movie, or Is It an Old Song? An Interactive Audiovisual Journey to Find out, Explore and Play

摘要

Music and movies are major forms of entertainment with a very significant impact in our lives, and they have been playing together since the early days of the moving image. Music history on its own goes back till much earlier, and has been present in every known culture. It has also been common for artists to perform and record music originally written and performed by other musicians, since ancient times. In this paper, we present and evaluate As Music Goes By, an interactive web environment that allows users to search, visualize and explore music and movies from complementary perspectives, along time. User evaluation results were very encouraging in terms of perceived usefulness, usability and user experience. Future work will lead us further in the aim for increased richness and flexibility, the chance to find unexpected meaningful information, and the support to discover and experience music and movies that keep entertaining, connecting and touching us.