NexTrend: Context-Aware Music-Relay Corridors Using NFC Tags

Abstract

The rise of pervasive computing presents unique opportunities due to increasing availability of smart devices such as mobile phones and tablets equipped with various sensors enabling Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies. The growth of mobile computing has led to an increase in access to digital music. With the growth of digital music, the development of music information sharing services for users becomes important. The existing sharing methods are based on the users' social network and preferences in music. However, sometimes, sharing music according to location and time is needed. This paper presents work on smart spaces equipped with NFC tags, deployed at different locations in hallways for discovering and sharing new music experiences. This concept provides a new way of interaction between passers-by for discovering music in relation to location. For example, the hallway locations use sensing devices to provide an automatic means of exchanging music information among the passers-by. We utilized NFC tags as Music-Relay hot spots. The hot spot retrieves information about the music a user is playing on her/his device while s/he is passing by the hot spot. The work contributes to a pervasive service that equips an environment with music context intelligence about a passer-bys choice of music and allows users to feel the musical presence of other users who have been in the same location at previous point in time. In general, this paper proposes a new music information sharing service using the music information captured from users at a specific location in time.