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More festival apps – Roskilde Festival 2014

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Like previous years current and former DTU Compute students have created mobile apps for Roskilde Festival as part of the partnership between DTU and Roskilde Festival and our research activities. The apps this year include:

Roskilde Explorer
The app lets you know, what the festival has to offer right here, right now.

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Roskilde Festival Music Suggest
The app has been the Official Roskilde Labs app contest winner in 2013 and 2014. It help guests at Roskilde Festival explore artists playing at the festival and provide suggestions based on sources including Facebook, iTunes, and last.fm.

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Roskilde Decibel 2014 
The app allows you to visualize and track how much noise you are exposed to. You can get immediate measurement of the current sound level in decibel and noise levels directly on the Roskilde map. You can get achievements too by measuring sound levels around Roskilde’s stages or at specific times of the day.

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Crowds, Bluetooth and Rock’n’Roll: Understanding Music Festival Participant Behavior

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Our paper on Crowds, Bluetooth and Rock’n’Roll: Understanding Music Festival Participant Behavior is available in arXiv. At a large music festival (8 days and 130,000+ participants) we applied Bluetooth sensing to discover Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones carried by the participants, which enabled us to observe patterns of behavior in terms of participant mobility and offline social interaction. An overall summary of the mobility data collected during the 8 day festival is shown below.

A nice popular summary of the article was made by MIT Technology Review in Music Festivals, Bluetooth Monitoring and the Behavior of Crowds.
 

ArtistRecommender winner app at Roskilde Labs

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With the Roskilde ArtistRecommender app for Android, it is possible to get personal artist recommendations. Find the bands playing at Roskilde Festival which are similar to your taste in music, and explore new music at the Roskilde Festival.

      

The app is developed by three masters students in our Digital Media Engineering program at DTU Informatics under my supervision and was recently selected as one of four winner apps at Roskilde LABS ’12. Congratulations to Erik Beuschau, Michael Lunøe and Rasmus Theodorsen.

The DTU Roskilde site also has a short article (in danish) about the ArtistRecommender app.

Experiments with mobile apps at Roskilde Festival 2012

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roskilde_2012This year at Roskilde Festival we are running a set of experiments by having festival participants using cool apps that have been developed by students in our lab:

  • Orange Fever – a massive social game where you infect others using Bluetooth and spread the ‘Orange Fever’
  • Hide and Seek – a game about meeting new people at Roskilde Festival by means of your smartphone
  • Roskilde Decibel – the app will collect ambient noise level showing the user the level of noise exposure s/he has been exposed to
  • MusicNerd – navigate between concerts in a tightly packed music schedule at Roskilde Festival 2012
  • SoundRate – rate your music preferences and experiences and provide useful feedback
  • ArtistRecommender – browse the artists at Roskilde Festival 2012 and get personal recommendations

All apps can be downloaded from Google Play.

Roskilde ’11 ArtistRecommender gets attention

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artistrecommenderThe Roskilde ’11 ArtistRecommender app developed by a team of DTU students Erik Beuschau, Michael Lunøe and Rasmus Theodorsen, as part of the festival courses in the Roskilde Festival powered by DTU Students initiative is now formally promoted by Roskilde Festival.

Also Berlingske has an article discussing ‘Smart apps for Roskilde Festival’ mentioning the Roskilde ’11 ArtistRecommender app.

Roskilde ’11 ArtistRecommender available

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artistrecommenderThe Roskilde ’11 ArtistRecommender mobile app for Android is now available in Android Market. The app is developed by a team of DTU students Erik Beuschau, Michael Lunøe and Rasmus Theodorsen, as part of the festival courses in the Roskilde Festival powered by DTU Students initiative.

The mobile app allow the user to browse the artists at Roskilde Festival 2011 and get personal recommendations based on music preferences. Download the app from Android Market.