Enchantment Under the Sea: An Intelligent Enviroment for User Friendly Music Mixing

Disc Jokeys (DJs) generally mix music in a confined isolated space. This can make the DJ have depression sentiments and it can also difficult the DJ´s understanding of his public. We present Enchantment Under The Sea: a new intelligent environment that allows the disc jokey to roam freely, interact directly with his audience, receive informative feedback about the public´s social interactions, while also respecting the DJs privacy concerns. The music interface is controlled using Microsoft´s wireless touch mouse with ubiquitous gestures that resemble dance moves. The music mixing interface is displayed on the walls of the event, where two different display modalities are enabled: open interface, in which the public can observe all of the DJ´s decisions with the music mixing interface and also actively give music suggestions to the DJ. And a closed interface, where all the music controllers are mapped to sea animals, that only the DJ knows the mapping to, thus providing privacy to the DJ´s work. The public´s social interactions are measured with sonar sensors whose data is provided to the DJ through the musical interface. We report results of a controlled usability inspection.