This week’s School of Informatics seminar will be given by Daniel Wolff , research student and fellow at MIRG:

Location: AG08 (College Building)
Date: Wednesday 15 January, 2014
Time: 16:00 – 17:30

Title: Creating Audio-Based Experiments as Social Web Games with the CASimIR Framework

Abstract:
This talk presents the CASimIR framework for online experiments, its use for creating a  music audio game, and initial results and analyses of the collected data. Gathering user data is essential to understand the semantics of music audio and CASimIR is a new open framework for creating games with a purpose and surveys to collect user data in the Web and social networks. Its design facilitates collaborative data annotation in dynamic environments by providing modules for managing media and annotation data, as well as  functionality for creating and running online real-time multi-player games. Technical  benefits of the extensible framework, as well as its cost effectiveness, are discussed. As a case-study, we present its use in Spot The Odd Song Out, a multi-player game for  collecting annotations on musical similarity and rhythm and we analyze the quantity and quality of data obtained to date with this game. The results and lessons for future data  collection projects in the context of shared and linked data are discussed.