Hey Ryan, the attach didn't come through (for me getting the digest,
at least). Can you post to the "files" section of the group?

ian

--- In xipf-talk@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Shaw <rshaw@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I thought the attached paper would be of interest to people on this
> list. The author, Frank Bentley, gave a talk yesterday at Yahoo!
> Research Berkeley, and the topic of digital music packaging arose. A
> unified interface for browsing, sharing and consuming different media
> types could be considered a way of dynamically creating personalized
> packaging for music.
>
> "We describe the results of two ethnographic-style studies that
> investigated consumer use of photos and music respectively. Although
the
> studies were designed, executed, and analyzed separately, in our
> findings we discovered striking similarities between the ways in which
> our participants used personally captured photos and commercially
> purchased music. These findings have implications for the design of
> future systems with respect to handling and sharing content in photo or
> music form. We discuss making allowances for satisficing behavior,
> sharing media as a way to reminisce or to communicate an experience
> (tell a story), getting sidetracked while browsing, and similarities in
> organizing behaviors."
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan
>