Authors:
Vasco Serra
and
Teresa Chambel
Affiliation:
LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Songs, Lyrics, Movies, Quotes, Time, Memory, Emotions, Explore, Compare, Interactive Media Access, Synchronicity and Serendipity.
Abstract:
We all go through the situation where we listen to a movie or a song lyrics quote and without giving it much thought, immediately know where it comes from, like an instant and often emotional memory. It is also very common to be in the opposite scenario where we try hard to remember where we know these words from, want to discover, and also find it interesting to see them quoted in different contexts. These situations remind us of the importance of quotes in movies and music, that sometimes get more popular than the movie or song they belong to. In fact, quotes, music and movies are among the contents that we most treasure, for their emotional impact and the power to entertain and inspire us. In this paper, we present the motivation and the interactive support for quotes in As Music Goes By, giving users a chance of searching and surfing quotes in music and movies. Users can find, explore and compare related contents, and access quotes in a contextualized way in the movies or song ly
rics where they appear. The preliminary user evaluation results, focusing on perceived usefulness, usability and user experience, were very encouraging, proving the concept, informing refinements and new developments, already being addressed. Users valued most the search, navigation, contextualization and emotional flavor: to be able to access and compare quotes in movies and in lyrics, to navigate across movies and songs, the emotional dimension and representation also for quotes. Future work will lead us further with the focus on rich, flexible and contextualized interactive access to quotes, music and movies, aiming for increased understanding of their meaning and relations, chances for serendipitous discoveries and to get inspired and moved by these media that we treasure.
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