Uplifing Interviews in Social Science with Individual Data Visualization: the case of Music Listening

  • Robin Cura
  • , Amélie Beaumont
  • , Jean Samuel Beuscart
  • , Samuel Coavoux
  • , Noé Latreille De Fozières
  • , Brenda Le Bigot
  • , Yann Renisio
  • , Manuel Moussallam
  • , Thomas Louail

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Abstract

Collecting accurate and fine-grain information about the music people like, dislike and actually listen to has long been a challenge for sociologists. As millions of people now use online music streaming services, research can build upon the individual listening history data that are collected by these platforms. Individual interviews, in particular, can benefit from such data, by allowing the interviewers to immerse themselves in the musical universe of consenting respondents, and thus ask them contextualized questions and get more precise answers. Designing a visual exploration tool allowing such an immersion is however difficult, because of the volume and heterogeneity of the listening data, the unequal "visual literacy"of the prospective users, or the interviewers' potential lack of knowledge of the music listened to by the respondents. In this case study we discuss the design and evaluation of such a tool. Designed with social scientists, its purpose is to help them in preparing and conducting semi-structured interviews that address various aspects of the listening experience. It was evaluated during thirty interviews with consenting users of a streaming platform in France.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450391566
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Apr 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2022 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 30 Apr 20225 May 2022

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period30/04/225/05/22

Keywords

  • computational social science
  • individual interviews
  • music streaming data
  • personal data visualization

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