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SUMMARY:Randomness as a resource for design - Tuck Leong\, MSR Cambridge
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CONTACT:T. Metin Sezgin
DESCRIPTION:Many people today have access to enormous libraries of digital
  content. Increasingly these libraries contain personal content\, consumed
  in support of people’s non-instrumental needs. If current trends persis
 t\, these repositories will only increase. Having to choose from so much c
 ould be unpleasant especially in the absence of strong preferences. This r
 aises some concerns for user experience (UX) design. Within this design ag
 enda\, approaches for such interactions should not only be optimized for U
 X but must also support users’ non-instrumental needs. People face this 
 predicament during digital music listening and yet report positive experie
 nces when listening in shuffle. Through an empirical study of digital musi
 c listening and close examination of people’s listening practices and ex
 periences\, we argue that a shuffle-based approach—whereby people can ab
 dicate choice to a random process while being able to modulate the randomn
 ess—not only mitigates the unpleasantness of choosing but also supports 
 their non-instrumental needs while fostering desirable experiential outcom
 es.
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