Abstract
Finding music albums in large databases is an inherently difficult problem, especially if users do not know exactly what they are looking for. MusicSpace lays out music albums spatially according to different perspectives and provides a Zoomable User Interface to enable navigation within these perspectives. The choice of perspectives was inspired by the theory of Conceptual Spaces, so similar items regarding each perspective are placed near to each other. We believe that the concept of laying out items according to Conceptual Spaces has the potential to generalize to all kind of real world items like pictures, food, wines or books that can be described by perceptual qualities as time, color, emotion or taste.
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Gärdenfors, P.: Conceptual Spaces: The geometry of thought. MIT Press, Cambridge (2000)
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Müller, H.J., Krüger, A. (2006). MusicSpace: A Multi Perspective Browser for Music Albums. In: Butz, A., Fisher, B., Krüger, A., Olivier, P. (eds) Smart Graphics. SG 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11795018_26
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