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Student project: Urørt Stars

March 20, 2009 on 9:32 am | By Jørn | In Design, Student projects | No Comments

In the autumn of 2008 students at AHO conducted a 5 week investigation into NRK Urørt. See more student projects.

Lars Marcus Vedeler looked into how to make the content of Urørt more visible for the listeners. His problem statement was:

How to preoritize and visualize music on urørt for easing and increasing explorativity for the user?

The result, Urørt Stars, is a different way of browsing through the thousands of unknown songs within the web site. By using different filters the user can emphasize his/ hers preferences in music.

Particularly interesting about this concept is the visualisations of other users’ routes through the content, and the ability to store and share these traces with each other. It makes movement and actions on the site visible and turns it into a social object that you can discuss and socialise around.

Lars created a non-clickable prototype in Adobe Flash, telling the story about how this could be used:

Urørt Stars is a student project by Lars Marcus Vedler done in collaboration with the RECORD project. Urørt Stars is different way of browsing through the thousands of unknown songs within the web site. By using different filters the user can emphasize his/ hers preferences in music.
You can read more about Lars’ approach, methods and reflections in his report.