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Student Project: Musicpartners

April 3, 2009 on 6:29 am | By Jørn | In Design, Student projects | No Comments

In the autumn of 2008, students at AHO conducted a 5 week task looking into how to move from a transaction-based music store, to a store based more on richer experiences around music. See more student projects for RECORD here.

Fan-Fan, Kjetil Austvoll-Dahlgren and Kristin Tobiassen made a cross-platform music store based around a single piece of Norwegian legislation: You are allowed to share the music you buy with five of your closest peers. This laid the foundation for a rich service based on many small groups of five people. However, this also introduced many challenges regarding group dynamics such as maintenance, joining / quitting, leadership and internal communication.

Read more about the concept in their presentation.

Student Project: Telenor mutrack

April 1, 2009 on 8:47 am | By Jørn | In Design, Student projects | No Comments

In the autumn of 2008 students at AHO conducted a 5 week investigation into different solutions for a mobile music shopping experience. See more student projects.

mutrack is group effort by Ingrid A. Clausen, Stina Wessman, Eivind Bergstøl, Lars M. Vedeler and Kristian Sporsheim. The project looks into of how to share and explore music in a physical context. Here is what they write about their it:

mutrack is a concept that act as a link between people, their music and where they like (or hate) to be.
You create a trail or track of where you’ve been by dropping off small teasers of the music you listen to as you go.
The music links to the location and can be found by others after you.
If they want they can buy it when they find it, in order to pick it up, or they can stay in that place and just listen to your song.

If places are special to you, you can add text to and tell the world WHY that song is there. In a way, you create a musical territory or turf.

Learn more about it in their project presentation.