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Choice: Abdicating or exercising
Tuck Wah Leong, Steve Howard, Frank Vetere, M Burnett (ed.), MF Costabile (ed.), T Catarci (ed.), B DeRuyter (ed.), D Tan (ed.), M Czerwinski (ed.), A Lund (ed.)
CHI 2008: 26TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS VOLS 1 AND 2, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS | ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY | Published : 2008
Abstract
Many people today have access to enormous libraries of digital content. Increasingly these libraries contain personal content, consumed in support of people's non-instrumental needs. If current trends persist, these repositories will only increase. Having to choose from so much could be unpleasant especially in the absence of strong preferences. This raises some concerns for user experience (UX) design. Approaches for such interactions should not only be optimized for UX but must also support users' noninstrumental needs. People face this predicament during digital music listening and yet report positive experiences when listening in shuffle. Through an empirical study of digital music liste..
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