Pirkka

In this book, Pirkka Åman explores Åman is a

music recommendation systems
and suggests new discovery researcher,
strategies that make use of context
information, information describing
the listener’s situation.
writer
The ethical cornerstone of the and music
thesis is to support cultural
diversity by influencing music enthusiast
recommendations towards non-
obvious and non-mainstream music. with a back­
Åman believes that one way to
achieve serendipitous – new, good,
ground
in design
and often surprising – musical
discoveries is to offer people ways
to augment urban environments
with music. research,
Designing for human-
Contextual Music
Recommendation computer
and Discovery
inter­action
and media
and cultural
studies.