Evaluating the Experiential Quality of Musical Instruments A Psychom

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

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Evaluating the Experiential Quality of Musical Instruments A Psychometric Approach

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Gian-Marco Schmid

Evaluating the Experiential Quality of Musical Instruments A Psychometric Approach With a preface from Prof. Dr. Klaus Opwis and Dr. Alexandre Tuch

Gian-Marco Schmid Basel, Switzerland Master-Thesis Universität Basel, 2016 u.d.T.: Gian-Marco Schmid: „Evaluation of musical instruments from the musician’s perspective: A questionnaire for assessing the musician’s perception of the experiential qualities of musical instruments“

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Foreword The present master’s thesis was written by Gian-Marco Schmid and was part of the research on Human-Computer Interaction that is carried out at the Center for Cognitive Psychology and Methodology at the University of Basel. The research group on Human-Computer Interaction consists of a team of researchers and studen