Designing Visual Guides for Casual Listeners of Live Orchestral Music


We employed human-centred design techniques in iteration to improve the live classical music experience for casual listeners. We performed the following steps: 
  • Collected user feedback using a design probe to understand the target users' requirements
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Simulated concert setup for user evaluation at the University of Toronto (full lighting)
  • Created low- and medium-fidelity prototypes based on users' requirements
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Tunnel visualization utilizes the spatial layout of orchestra layout to show the movement of sound among orchestra sections
  • Evaluated the prototypes with experts in visualization and music theory 

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Designing Visual Guides for Casual Listeners of Live Orchestral Music


Catherine Solis, Fahimeh Rajabiyazdi, Fanny Chevalier

Visual .., 2019