Do you listen to music on your phone? Are you interested in how music influences your emotions?
Introducing MuPsych-app that learns how you listen and provides
personalized feedback on your listening style.
The MuPsych-app was developed to collect data for music psychology research.
Now we're making it available to everyone to help you understand how music
influences your emotions in everyday life.
We want to use music to support the emotional health of people of all ages.
This video will introduce you to the app, including some of the benefits and how
to use it.
You can receive some great benefits from using the MuPsych-app. It will create a personalized listener
profile for you with information on how you listen to music and how it influences your emotions.
This will include a listening diary, recording each of your listening episodes, how suitable your
music selection was and how successful you were in reaching your emotional goals.
You will also learn your listener type and style, which you can compare with your friends.
Once enough people have used music, we will be able to create personalized music playlists
for you. Based on your mood, what you are doing and your reason for listening.
Every person, who takes part will be able to use this scientific playlist creator as much as they want for free.
You can also win subscriptions to your music streaming service. See the MuPsych
website for our current competition details.
If you listen to music on an Android phone, you can use Mupsych right now.
Once you've set up the app, all you need to do is continue listening to music as usual from your preferred streaming app.
When you start listening, MuPsych will ask some questions about your mood and your reasons for listening.
After five minutes, we will ask some more questions about your mood, the music and
your listening context.
Once you complete a set of music questions you won't receive any more for a few hours.
If they appear too often you can control between questions in the settings menu.
If you don't receive any music questions you may have to change some settings on your phone.
Check the help menu in the app for details, in addition to the music questions the app includes
some surveys on your personality and musical and musical experience.
Which will be used to create your listening profile. You can complete these at any time.
All of the answers you provide will go towards creating your personalized feedback and playlists.
All of your data will be encrypted and securely stored in accordance with our strict ethical policy.
To take part go to the Google Play store and find MuPsych and download it to your phone. When you first open the app, you will be
presented with an information statement about our research.
Please take your time and read through.
Select MuPsych standard for the standard version or MuPsych extra for the complete experience.
Next, you can select which music player you use and connect this player to MuPsych.
To complete the setup, you will need to change a few settings on your phone, including allowing notification access.
All instructions will be given in the app.
Once you have set this up you simply need to continue your usual music listening in your regular music player.
You can start with the surveys from the
survey menu and the music questions will start whenever you next listen to music.
Thanks for watching this video and we hope you enjoy using the MuPsych-app to
understand how music influences your emotions in everyday life.