Adaptive UI for Enhanced Music Experience
With the increasing popularity of digital music player applications, it is not difficult to find such app used by smartphone users. However, the current user interface (UI) design of these mobile music apps is often too rigid and unable to engage users fo
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Abstract With the increasing popularity of digital music player applications, it is not difficult to find such app used by smartphone users. However, the current user interface (UI) design of these mobile music apps is often too rigid and unable to engage users for prolonging pleasurable entertainment. There is, therefore, a need to improve the aesthetics of this UI to enhance user experience and to keep and sustain customer loyalty. This paper will share feedback from 50 participants on existing music player applications’ UI design, and explore the relationship between user’s personality and preference (such as music genre) for better UI design of mobile music app. The research aims to predict the trend of these variables and would like to propose a customizable UI design of a mobile music app prototype. Keywords Adaptable UI design Mobile music application
Human-Centred UI design User experience
1 Introduction Music application players are in great demand since the mobile technology revolution in the 21st century. With Spotify or Pandora being the most popular choice, they have dominated the Google Play and Apple Store. Just in 2014, the two music listening applications have generated more than 70 % of the revenue of the top ten apps on IOS and Google Play, the audience being catered to is ever-growing [1]. The user interface (UI) design, however, is not yet fully able to adapt itself to accommodate the users’ needs. UI designs provided for the users are what they get and it will not be able to satisfy the diverse needs of the population. An online survey was conducted to determine the users’ current feedback on the UI design of their music application. 50 random participants aged 16–48 were asked to do an I.T.K. Cheng (&) S.L. See Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) A*STAR, 1 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore 138632, Singapore e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 W. Chung and C.S. Shin (eds.), Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 483, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41661-8_11
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online survey. The results showed that 60 % of the participants indicated ‘No’ when they were asked if the UI design of their mobile music application understood them while 22 % of the participants indicated ‘I don’t know’. A customizable and adaptable UI design, on the other hand, benefits both the customer and the developer- it caters to different customers and if the customer does not like the proposed design by the application, the customer has the freedom to change the UI design. Furthermore, according to Menton’s Theory of Engagement and Boredom, users are more inclined to experience boredom as a result of prolonged repetitive visual design [2]. Therefore, this research study investigated the relationships between different human factors. • • • • •
Emotions versus Music Genres Colours versus Music Genres Personality Type versus Typeface Design Typeface Design versus Music Genres Emotions versus Colours
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