Performance de música em rede: avaliação e análise de ferramentas e propostas de aprimoramento de usabilidade

Abstract

Network Music Performance (NMP) occurs when musicians in different geographic locations play together using a computer network. Although tools and platforms for this purpose have existed for a long time, it is possible to verify that their use is not exploited to support relevant musical productions or performances. By performing a data collection, we verified the absence of studies that relate NMP to the areas of usability, ergonomics and user experience (UX). We believe that the concatenation of these topics is necessary, since prior to the experience of the NMP is the contact with the interface of some software. Therefore, this work proposes to evaluate the NMP tool interfaces, using the Ergolist and Co-discovery digital graphical user interface evaluation methods, and to analyze the user experience of these systems. We counted on the participation of volunteer musicians for the realization of the NMP experiments. The research concludes with a set of usability enhancement proposals, in the form of interface mockups, which suggest improvements to be implemented in these tools.