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- 5+ years of music experience from elementary and middle school
- College level education (probably not relevant)
- High technical level (probably not relevant)
- Own a laptop + microphone
- Don’t necessarily own a smartphone
- Casual composer (produce a piece over a long time)
- Either gender
- The people we interviewed don’t own expensive composing software or electronic music hardware (though all of them probably have access to it from MIT anyway)
Task analysis
For all tasks:
- Where is the task performed?
- At home or wherever the resources they need are available
- Potentially constrained by presence of piano, given current tools
- What is the environment like?
- Whatever the user feels comfortable with
- What are the time or resource constraints?
- People would do this in their free time, no time pressure
- Within this, there’s not really any time constraints on tasks
- Maybe paper is a resource constraint if you’re printing from music SW
- Who else is involved in the task?
- No one (performers / listeners will get the music, but they aren’t really involved in creating or exporting it)
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