Incomplete List of Resources on User Aspects in MIR

Bainbridge, D.,Cunningham, S. J., & Downie, J. S. (2003). How People Describe Their Music Information Needs: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Music Queries. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.

Bainbridge, D., Nevil-Manning, C.,Witten, I., Smith, L., & McNab, R. (1999). Towards a digital library of popular music. Proceedings of the 4th ACM conference on Digital libraries, 161-169.

Baumann, S., & Kluter, A. (2002). Super Convenience for Non-Musicians: Querying MP3 and the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 157-163.

Bonardi, A. (2000). IR for Contemporary Music: What the Musicologist Needs. Abstract of an invited talk given at the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, Plymouth, MA, USA.

Casey, J., & Taylor, K. (1995). Music Library Users: Who Are These People and What Do They Want From Us? Music Reference Services Quarterly, 3(3), 3-14.

Chai, W., & Vercoe, B. (2000). Using user models in music information retrieval systems. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval.

Clegg, S. M. (1985). User Surveys and Statistics - the Opportunities for Music-Libraries. Fontes Artis Musicae, 32(1), 69-75.

Cunningham, S. J. (2002). What people do when they look for music: Implications for design of a music digital library. Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology, Proceedings, 2555, 177-178.

Cunningham, S. J. (2002). User Studies: A First Step in Designing an MIR Testbed. MIR/MDL Evaluation Project White Paper Collection, 2, 17-19.

Cunningham, S. J., Reeves, N., & Britland, M. (2003). An Ethnographic Study of Music Information Seeking: Implications for the Design of a Music Digital Library. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 5-16.

Downie, J. S. (1994). The Musifind musical information retrieval project, Phase ii: User assessment survey. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, 149-166.

Downie, J. S., & Cunningham, S. J. (2002). Toward a theory of music information retrieval queries: System design implications. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 299-300.

Downie, J. S., Lee, J. H., Gruzd, A. A., and Jones, M. C. (2007). Toward an understanding of similarity judgments for music digital library evaluation. Proceedings of the ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [In print].

Fabbri, F. (1999). Browsing Music Spaces: Categories And The Musical Mind. Paper presented at the 3rd Triennial British Musicological Societies’ Conference.

Itoh, M. (2000). Subject search for music: quantitative analysis of access point selection. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval.

Jones, S., Cunningham, S. J., & Jones, M. (2004). Organizing digital music for use: an examination of personal music collections. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2004, Barcelona.

Kim, J. & Belkin, N. J. (2002). Categories of music description and search terms and phrases used by non-music experts. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, 209-214. 

Laplante, A. & Downie, J. S. (2006). Everyday life music information-seeking behaviour of young adults. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2006.

Lee, J. & Downie, J. S. (2004). Survey Of Music Information Needs, Uses, And Seeking Behaviours: Preliminary Findings. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2004, 441-446.

Lee, J. H., Downie, J. S., Cunningham, S. J. (2005). Challenges in Cross-Cultural/Multilingual Music Information Seeking. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2005.

Lee, J. H., Jones. M. C., and Downie, J. S. (2006). Factors affecting the response rates of real-life MIR queries. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2006, Victoria, Canada, 371-372. 

McPherson, J. R., & Bainbridge, D. (2001). Usage of the MELDEX digital music library. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, 19-20.

Notess, M. (2003). Three Looks at Users: A Comparison of Methods for Studying Digital Library Use. Paper presented at the Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, Espoo, Finland.

Pardo, B., Birmingham, W., & Shifrin, J. (2004). Name that Tune: A Pilot Study in Finding a Melody from a Sung Query. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(4), 283-300.

Pauws, S. (2003). Effects of song familiarity, singing training and recent song exposure on the singing of melodies. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.

Pauws, S. & Wijdeven, S. V. D. (2005). User evaluation of a new interactive playlist generation concept. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.

Selfridge-Field, E. (2000). What Motivates a Musical Query? Abstract of an invited talk given at the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, Plymouth, MA, USA.

Taheri-Panah, S. & MacFarlane, A. (2004). Music Information Retrieval systems: why do individuals use them and what are their needs? Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2004.

Tseng, Y.-H. (1999). Crystal (demonstration abstract): a content-based music retrieval system. Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 325.

Uitdenbogerd, A. L., & Schyndel, R. v. (2002). A review of factors affecting music recommender success. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 204-208.

Uitdenbogerd, A. L., & Yap, Y. W. (2003). Was Parsons right? An experiment in usability of music representations for melody-based music retrieval. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.

Vignoli, F. (2004). Digital music interaction concepts: A user study. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.