Improving the Music Listening Experience HCI Research at Spotify
Host
Arvind Satyanarayan
Abstract:
Music plays an important role in everyday life around the
world. People rely on music to manage their mood,
express their identity and celebrate milestone events.
Streaming services like Spotify have transformed the way
that people consume audio by providing listeners with
multiple personalized ways to access an abundant catalog
of content. In this talk, I will describe several active areas of HCI research at Spotify and present our work on understanding how people search for music and how we can enable exploration for listeners.
Bio:
Jenn Thom leads the HCI research lab at Spotify. Her current research interests include understanding how people search for and describe music and developing novel design and prototyping methods for conversational interactions. Prior to joining Spotify, she was a Research Scientist at Amazon where she worked on collecting and mining data to bootstrap new features for the launch of the Echo. She was also a Research Staff Member at IBM Research where she studied how employees used social networks for intercultural collaboration. Jenn received her PhD from Cornell University and her dissertation focused on how people expressed territorial
behaviors in user-generated content communities.
Music plays an important role in everyday life around the
world. People rely on music to manage their mood,
express their identity and celebrate milestone events.
Streaming services like Spotify have transformed the way
that people consume audio by providing listeners with
multiple personalized ways to access an abundant catalog
of content. In this talk, I will describe several active areas of HCI research at Spotify and present our work on understanding how people search for music and how we can enable exploration for listeners.
Bio:
Jenn Thom leads the HCI research lab at Spotify. Her current research interests include understanding how people search for and describe music and developing novel design and prototyping methods for conversational interactions. Prior to joining Spotify, she was a Research Scientist at Amazon where she worked on collecting and mining data to bootstrap new features for the launch of the Echo. She was also a Research Staff Member at IBM Research where she studied how employees used social networks for intercultural collaboration. Jenn received her PhD from Cornell University and her dissertation focused on how people expressed territorial
behaviors in user-generated content communities.