SoundsRide: Affordance-Synchronized Music Mixing for In-Car Audio Augmented Reality
summary
SoundsRide mixes recorded songs to align high-contrast music events with route affordances by 1) estimating ETAs to annotated GPS events, 2) fusing those ETAs into a cost-aware mix plan, and 3) recomputing and patching playback with real-time ETA fusion. It uses a database of user-annotated snippets, song-structure-aware cross-fades, and resynchronization strategies (accelerate, delay, temporise) via micro-synchronization. Technical demo shows audible artifacts when forcing resyncs; user study with 8 participants on 6 affordances finds ~50% unaided recognition and mixed effects on perceived driving safety.
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