OUTMedia - Symbiotic Service for Music Discovery in Urban Augmented Reality

The rise of the mobile Internet has led to emergence of location-based services, but not to commercial breakthroughs in media applications. We created OUTMedia, a location-sensitive music discovery application to investigate the desirable features of user interface in this context. This paper documents our design efforts and a field study using a functional prototype. We utilized several measures in an experiment involving eighteen music enthusiasts. Our findings call for service designers to support the symbiotic interplay between media and places for enriching urban cultural experiences with user-created content. These design implications can support serendipitous media experiences in content discovery services to come.

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