Browsing by Author "Meng, Chuiyuan"

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    AudioSpark – audio production & engineering learning application
    (2017-08-01) Sideris, George; Meng, Chuiyuan
    With increasing advancements in the availability of technology for music, professional music production may be accomplished anywhere with as little as a laptop and a pair of headphones. To improve ability, users may find free tutorials and lessons online on services such as YouTube, alleviating the need to attend a formal physical or online school. Although there are many free online tutorials on the fundamentals of music production, without a sense of organization between the tutorials, many beginner producers end up lacking knowledge of major topics crucial to advancing to intermediate and advanced levels of production. Knowledge of the fundamentals of recording, producing, mixing, and mastering will give a novice producer enough of a foundation to advance to a higher quality and level of production and the ability to seek out more advanced learning topics.
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    Can Online Concerts Be Socially Engaging and Satisfying? Results and Implications from Two Global Virtual Music Events
    (Association for Technology in Music Instruction, 2023-09-22) Meng, Chuiyuan
    Online and hybrid music events are the future. These new formats offer unprecedented audience reach with substantially reduced financial and labor requirement. Not only are they increasingly feasible with the advancement of affordable personal computing and communication technologies, but also they are ever-more needed because of the increased awareness of carbon footprint and the social distancing due to the global pandemic. But the challenge is also clear: Concertgoing is a highly social activity, and replicating the social experience and satisfaction through computer-mediated communication has been difficult. In 2021, a new virtual conference and concert platform named Deck 10 was designed and developed specifically to address the various social and user experience barriers for web-based music events. A 2022 study was conducted to analyze two Deck 10-powered global online music events (involving 512 users from 38 countries) to evaluate the effectiveness, technology acceptance, online social presence and overall user satisfaction. The results indicate that online music events can deliver a socially engaging and satisfying audience experience. This presentation will go over the case studies, the technical aspects, and discuss key elements that contributed to online social presence and user satisfaction. The session will also discuss implications of the online and hybrid music event formats.
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    Considering Telematic Tools for Conferences
    (Stony Brook University, 2019) Deal, Scott; Smith, Rodney; Meng, Chuiyuan; Vice, Matt; Music and Arts Technology, School of Engineering and Technology
    Participation in conferences is an elemental component of professional life throughout the world. Two problems offset the social synergy gained from attending a far-away gathering of like-minded people. The first is the highly pronounced carbon footprint from air travel, and the second is the expense involved to participate in a conference which may be on another continent. These factors prevent many from participating who could otherwise benefit as well as contribute. As videoconferencing becomes more common and more sophisticated, it will serve as an alternative that not only benefits constituencies, but will expand the reach of a conference to more communities. This paper outlines a rationale, ideas, and a blueprint for a video conferencing toolkit intended to merge both on-site and on-line participants, via tailored applications and best practices. These include high grade audio/video capabilities common to telematic artists, in addition to integral components and practices of online presence that address issues of event management, social networking, collaboration-communication, information exchange, and asynchronous presence.
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    Measuring and Improving Audience Experience in Online Electro-Acoustic Concerts Through Interaction Design
    (2024-08) Meng, Chuiyuan; Deal, Scott; Martin-Hammond, Aqueasha; Hsu, Timothy; Palamara, Jason
    Online concerts and music events are increasingly needed, especially for genres such as electro-acoustic music. But the perceived levels of social experience and overall satisfaction for online audiences have been low. Recent literature on online concerts indicated that the low audience satisfaction could be caused by the lack of social experience, but the audience experience construct is multifaceted, and it could be influenced by many underlying factors. Audience in online electro-acoustic concerts can be viewed to carry several roles: as concert audience, as consumers of performing arts, as participants in an online social environment, and as end users in an interactive system. This study aims to understand the construct of audience experience in online electroacoustic concerts, examine the influence of underlying factors, and develop an instrument to assess online audience experience by adapting existing tools that separately measure each of the factors from the online audience experience construct. The design of online concert system could also have significant influence on online audience experience. Based on the resulting instrument, this study examines the influence of online concert system design on audience experience and attempts to improve audience experience through system design. The findings will generate strategies to enhance audience experience in future online electro-acoustic concerts.