Scenario for illustrating playing and social presence/friends activity locations

Picture 1:
It’s Wednesday evening and Johan is on his way home from work, waiting at the bus stop. He tunes into the Social Playlist channel on his mobile phone. There is a song by Kylie Minogue currently being played, “Can’t get you out of my head”.

Picture 2:
Johan brings out his mobile phone from his pocket. By the red color of the screen he directly sees that this song was assigned to the activity of “Work” by one of the friends in the channel. Johan sees that there are currently 7 people in the Social Playlist and smiles to the fact that most of his friends are still at work, and praises the fact that he’s got flexible hours. Himself has himself just turned into the activity of “In transportation”.

Picture 3:
The bus arrives and while standing in line for the bus Johan has a closer look at the screen. He see that this song was chosen by his quite new friend Daniel. “I didn’t know he was into Kylie Minogue” thinks Johan. “But this is definitely a good song”.

Picture 4:
Johan places himself comfortably in the bus as the Kylie Minogue song fades out and a new song turns up in the Social Playlist. This time it is actually one of his assigned songs, a new one by an unknown artist called Morgan Geist. He gets a little bit happy about the fact that his friends will get to hear it since he is really enthusiastic the song. As he has assigned to the activity of “In transportation” he assumes people are now starting to drop out of their offices, as the song would probably not have been played if he was the only one “in transportation”.

Picture 5:
Simultaneously, Johan’s friend in the playlist Peter has just left his work and is heading for his parked car. Peter has never heard the song by Morgan Geist that Johan put to the playlist but instantly likes it and decide that he should check out more songs from the same artist later in the night.

       

Scenario for Creating Account and assigning locations and songs

Picture 1:
Johan is sitting by his computer at home and signs up as a new user of the Social Playlist-service through its web page.

Picture 2:
Johan is asked to assigning his activity locations. He accepts the preset suggested activities “Work”, “Home”, “Going out”, “In transport” and “Shopping” and also adds a own activity called “Exercising”. As he is situated in Malmö, this is also his overall default location. Malmö is shown on a zoomable map where he draws his own areas for each activity directly in the web interface. Each activity can have one or several areas. Each type of activity is connected to a specific color.

Picture 3:
After deciding his activity locations, Johan localises his music directory on his computer and his songs are shown in the interface together with a map of his activity locations in Malmö. Johan drags some of his current favourite songs into the activity locations on the map and hence they are assigned to these different locations. At the activity location of his home he places a song by Leonard Cohen that he always likes to listen to for example when relaxing and going to bed. At the activity location of his work, he places a song by Björk that he likes to listen to while working. As he drags songs into the activity location, the song gets the color of the activity location in his songlist. A song assigned to an activity location is simultaneously assigned to all other activity locations connected to that type of activity.