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Bean Academy: A Music Composition Game for Beginners with Vocal Query Transcription

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Bean Academy is a music composition game designed for musically-unskilled learners to lower entry barriers to music composition learning such as music theory comprehension, literacy and proficiency in utilizing music composition software. As a solution, Bean Academy’s Studio Mode was designed with the adaptation of an auditory-based ‘Vocal Query Transcription(VQT)’ model to enhance learners’ satisfaction and enjoyment towards music composition learning. Through the VQT model, players can experience a simple and efficient music composition process by experiencing their recorded voice input being transcripted into an actual musical piece. Based on our playtest, thematic analysis was conducted in two separate experiment groups. Here, we noticed that although Bean Academy does not outperform the current-level Digital Audio Workstation(DAW) in terms of performance or functionality, it can be highly considered as suitable learning material for musically-unskilled learners.

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CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 2023
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DOI:10.1145/3544549
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  1. Education game
  2. Music composition
  3. Serious game
  4. Vocal Query Transcription

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