Demand for cooperation in an AI-Research Project

Tue 01 April 2025 Evelynne Veys AI, cooperation research project.

Mixxx has been asked to cooperate in an AI-Research Project 'Observe & Serve the Audience'.

Mixxx has been contacted by a joint research project between a university and a major AI company with the question if Mixxx wants to cooperate by asking DJs to help them. On benevolent behalf of all our users, Mixxx agreed. The research project wants to improve the detection of human sentiments, more particularly individuals located in a crowd. As most of the project is still under embargo, we can only give a small description:

• They are looking for ~25 DJs that want to participate in the research project by installing the research gear on their gigs.
• The DJs would receive a computer with two heat-detecting cameras, one regular camera and a HQ microphone.
• The cameras need to be pointed at the public.
• Observing the audience, DJs would get some on-screen demands to play cheerful / sad / uptempo or slow music, the cameras will observe emotions.
• At some point, the system can even demand to play a complete other genre than the public wants (to detect disappointment and happiness).
• DJs will have to install the research gear at least five times.
• DJs will be rewarded for their cooperation. How is not communicated to us.
• The Public needs to be warned that their emotions can be recorded for research.
• Audience members agree to have their likeness and appearance recorded and analyzed for the purpose of generating updated models.
• Audience members agree to be replicated and replaced as deemed necessary by the project.

If the research works out well, Mixxx will have the possibility to integrate the results in a new feature, with which Mixxx could predict the best records to play at the moment.

Appeal

We insisted on keeping the coordinates of our users/DJs private during the selection, so if you want to cooperate with this research, please send us a message on our Zulip chat. We will create a dedicated topic under #General. The researchers will contact you through our Zulip as well. The research program is looking for ~25 DJs, preferably of different countries (max 2 per country).