Proposal for Analysis of Likes and Dislikes about Musical Instrument Sounds
Yukari Shirota · 2008
When children visit a musical instrument museum and view the exhibits, listening to the sounds with headsets, even those who are impressed tend to forget what they have seen once the excursion ends. To make the museum visits fruitful for them, I think that children's first impressions of the sounds are important. Analysis of such personal impressions helps make the musical instruments viewed memorable for children. In this paper, I would like to propose analysis of likes and dislike about musical instrument sounds. When children retrieve the museum databases, if the user interface is equipped with such a sound preference analysis function, it would make the data retrieval interesting. I think a conjoint analysis is suitable for the preference analysis. In the paper, I shall discuss how to apply the conjoint analysis to musical instrument sounds. In addition, as a user interface for respondents in a conjoint analysis, the bird-eye tool which I have developed is proposed. Keyword musical instrument,museum,conjoint analysis,preference tendency, Gunji's systematics, bird-eye tool.