Toning: New Experience of Sharing Music Preference with Interactive Earphone in Public Space

Abstract

The users in their 20s are curious about the feedback after sharing the music that they like, as much as the act of sharing itself. Moreover, they wish to share their musical taste with various people not only with their acquaintance, in everyday spaces and when on the move. In this paper, we present an interactive music sharing service called Toning, that makes users express their musical taste and share music with people in the same space through the most common wearable device, bluetooth earbuds. Our design process started with user survey and interview, aiming to understand their opinion about proper way of expressing music preference, and define design guidelines. Based on this, early concept design was conducted.