Interacting with Mobile Music Applications: Investigation of Influencing Factors of Music Information Encountering

Music information encountering within the mobile Internet environment mainly occurs in hedonic-oriented situations, which is quite different from the information encountering in utilitarian-oriented situations in prior work. To explore the main influencing factors of users' music information encountering experiences, we recruited 30 participants and conducted semi-structured interviews on their information encountering interacting with mobile music applications. The qualitative data were analyzed by three rounds of coding, and a model was proposed to identify the relevant influencing factors. The findings show that five main categories of factors can trigger users' music information encountering experience from both the user- and the application-related perspective.