Evaluating the Experiential Quality of Musical Instruments: A Psychometric Approach (BestMasters) - Softcover

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Schmid, Gian-Marco

 
9783658184193: Evaluating the Experiential Quality of Musical Instruments: A Psychometric Approach (BestMasters)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3658184191 ISBN 13: 9783658184193
Publisher: Springer, 2017

Synopsis

Gian-Marco Schmid investigates how musicians perceive the experiential quality of musical instruments using a bottom-up psychometric questionnaire development process and finds that there are three main factors on which musicians base their evaluation of musical instruments: (1) experienced freedom & possibilities, (2) perceived control & comfort and (3) perceived stability, sound quality & aesthetics. This structure is similar to research regarding the conceptualization of violin quality. It is therefore suggested that musicians who use different instruments tend to have an analogical concept of instrument quality.

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About the Author

Gian-Marco Schmid focuses his research on the interdisciplinary intersection between Music and Human-Computer Interaction. His main research interests reach from Psychometrics to Psychophysics.

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Gian-Marco Schmid investigates how musicians perceive the experiential quality of musical instruments using a bottom-up psychometric questionnaire development process and finds that there are three main factors on which musicians base their evaluation of musical instruments: (1) experienced freedom & possibilities, (2) perceived control & comfort and (3) perceived stability, sound quality & aesthetics. This structure is similar to research regarding the conceptualization of violin quality. It is therefore suggested that musicians who use different instruments tend to have an analogical concept of instrument quality.


Contents
  • Evaluation in the Domain of New Interfaces for Musical Expression
  • Interviews with Musicians and Item Generation
  • Refinement and Reduction of the Item Pool
Target Groups
Lecturers, students and practitioners in the field of Human-Computer Interaction,Music & HCI, Cognitive Psychology, Music Psychology and Musicology

The Author
Gian-Marco Schmid focuses his research on the interdisciplinary intersection between Music and Human-Computer Interaction. His main research interests reach from Psychometrics to Psychophysics.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3658184191
ISBN 13 
9783658184193
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
53