Music Monitor: Ambient Musical Data for the Home
Quan T. Tran, Elizabeth D. Mynatt · 2000
In this paper, we present a concept prototype, called Music Monitor, which illustrates how music can be used to balance attention between two active rooms in the home, with an initial focus between the kitchen and living room. We introduce a simple musical profile to reflect salient information from the monitored activities by identifying instrument voices to connote status information. We also discuss design goals and social implications of this project.