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The performance of recommender systems highly impacts both music streaming platform users and the artists providing music. As fairness …

In group decision-making, we can frequently observe that an individual adapts their behavior or belief to fit in with the group’s …

Invited talk at the MediaFutures Seminar at the University of Bergen.

I had a busy week with talks. Great that we have not the opportunity for online talks to connect across continents.

Invited talk at the Department of Computer Science at the Universität Innsbruck.

Invited talk at the Music and Audio Research lab—a research school within New York University.

Keynote at Codarts Rotterdam—International Women’s Day 2022.

Panel discussion with Wilbert Mutsaers (Spotify) on Music and Algorithms at IMPAKT TV, co-located with Dutch Media Week 2021.

I am very happy that our CHIIR paper Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders with Andrés Ferraro and Xavier Serra received a lot of media attention. It will take a while until I can integrate all the media articles (that I am aware of) in my website.

As recommender systems play an important role in everyday life, there is an increasing pressure that such systems are fair. Besides …

I am glad that my summary of the ISMIR 2020 special session: ‘‘How do we—in MIR research—help artists? Do we?’’ made it to the December 2020 issue of the SIGIR Forum.

I had the honor being a guest at the Austrian radio program ‘‘Mahlzeit Burgenland’’. We talked about music recommenders, Austrian food, saxophones, the current Covid-19 situation, and many other things.

The recording of the panel on gender bias and discrimination in AI (in German) at the VUT Indie Days 2020 (as part of c/o pop xoxo) last week is now also available on YouTube.

Panelist at VUT Indie Days Köln 2020.

I am looking forward to join the panel on gender bias and discrimination in AI at the VUT Indie Days 2020 tomorrow. The panel is scheduled for 13:15 CEST and will be streamed on c/o pop xoxo in channel 1.

I am happy to announce that I will be part of this year’s online edition of VUT Indie Days 2020, co-located with c/o pop xoxo. I will join the panel on Gender biases and discrimination in AI.

My interview for LIWEST Kundenmagazin, Ausgabe Juli 2020 ([pdf] [e-paper]) was recorded. A 10 minutes cut of this interview is now online as a video at dorf tv. Your browser does not support the video tag.

I am happy to announce that I will be guiding one of the nine virtual sessions of the WiMIR workshop 2020 at vISMIR2020. The title of my session is: The best ever recommendation & For who?

I gave an interview for the cover story of LIWEST Kundenmagazin (Ausgabe Juli 2020). We talked about my research on music recommender systems, but also about music streaming in general. And some private remarks ;-)

There is a one-page feature about me and my recent project in the magazine Burgenland Mitte. Here is a link to the online version of the article. pdf file of the article in Burgenland Mitte.

A strong research record has evidenced that individuals tend to conform with a group’s majority opinion. In contrast to existing …

You missed my talk at PrivacyWeek 2019? Just watch it now :-). It’s 53 minutes long. You can also download it from the media.ccc.de archive. Optionally, you can choose the audio track ‘‘English’’, where you hear the simultaneous translation into English.

I am happy to announce that I will join one of the panels at VUT Indie Days Köln, taking place for the first time as part of the c/o pop Convention 2020.

See my PrivacyWeek talk on Sag mir, was du hörst – und ich sage dir, wer du bist at Relive until it will be archived on the Media Site of the Chaos Computer Club Germany.

Talk at PrivacyWeek 2019.

We present a browsing interface that allows for an audiovisual exploration of regional music taste around the world. We exploit a total …

Next week, Ö1 Radiokolleg (by the Austrian public broadcaster ORF) devotes to the topic of music and algorithms, and their impact on the music industry. The program is called Maschinenmusik.

The program of PrivacyWeek 2019 is online! My talk with the title Sag mir, was du hörst – und ich sage dir, wer du bist! (in German) is scheduled for Sunday, 27 October 2019, 15:00 – 15:45 in room ‘‘Saal 1’’.

Talk at AIxMusic Festival 2019, co-located with 2019 Ars Electronica Festival.

Workshop at AIxMusic Festival 2019, co-located with 2019 Ars Electronica Festival.

Besides holding a workshop on the festival’s second day (Friday), I will give a talk on ‘‘Music Information Retrieval: Inside and Outside the Music’’; together with Peter Knees at the AIxMusic Matinée on Sunday, 8 September.

I happily announce that I will hold a workshop with the title Recommenders and Intelligent Tools in Music Creation: Why, Why Not, and How? at AIxMusic Festival in scope of the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival – together with my co-speakers Peter Knees, Richard Vogl, and Hansi Raber.

It’s great to see our scientific results being communicated to the public. Our results were well received on the media. And here we go, the list of articles on the media:

I’m happy to announce that I will give a talk at this year’s PrivacyWeek 2019 – Privat, oida! organized by Chaos Computer Club Wien (C3W) in October. Stay tuned!

I proudly present the PLOS ONE article by Markus Schedl and me: We analyze music preferences in 47 countries with respect to what is considered mainstream in a particular country. And, of course, we evaluate recommendation approaches considering users’; mainstreaminess.

I am proud to announce that my position paper on ‘‘The Potential of the Confluence of Theoretical and Algorithmic Modeling in Music Recommendation’’ has been accepted for the ACM CHI 2019 Workshop on “Computational Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction (CompHCI 2019)“.

I am proud to announce that the late breaking work paper on ‘‘Cross-country user connections in an online social network for music’’ that I co-authored with Markus Schedl has been accepted for CHI 2019.

Next round of WiMIR mentoring has just started. I am looking forward to this journey, mentoring a young female researcher.

Talk at Rotary Club Linz-Altstadt.

The ISMIR paper co-authored with Markus Schedl is online. The paper is entitled ‘‘Investigating cross-country relationship between users’ social ties and music mainstreaminess’’. Christine Bauer, Markus Schedl (2018). Investigating cross-country relationship between users' social ties and music mainstreaminess.

The article ‘‘Investigating cross-country relationship between users’ social ties and music mainstreaminess’’ is accepted for publication at the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2018). I am looking forward to the discussions at the conference in September.

Last week appeared my first blog in the online-version of the newspaper DER STANDARD. The article is about hit prediction.

The Austrian newspaper DER STANDARD reported on my Elise Richter FWF project Fine-grained culture-aware music recommender systems. Here is the link to the article (in German).

I was interviewed for Noisey Austria (an online youth magazine) on music and artificial intelligence (in German): https://noisey.vice.com/alps/article/ywqpqy/roboter-statt-popstars-was-bedeutet-kunstliche-intelligenz-fur-die-musikwelt

I am glad that the co-authored book on the Basics of Music Business Research is out now. It is written in German and is entitled: ‘‘Musikwirtschaftsforschung: Die Grundlagen einer neuen Disziplin’’.

This month I start mentoring a young female researcher as part of the WiMIR mentoring 2018 program. I am looking forward to this ‘‘journey’’.

Markus Schedl and me, we received the Best Paper Award at MoMM 2017 for our article entitled ‘‘Introducing global and regional mainstreaminess for improving personalized music recommendation’’. Markus Schedl, Christine Bauer (2017).

Music Recommender Systems (MRS) are important drivers in music industry and are widely adopted by music platforms. Other than most MRS …

Panelist at ITalks on What makes a good pop star? 15 minutes of fame on the Internet…?!

Poster at the Summer School of European Science Days 2009 (EWTS 2009): The Economics of Art and Culture.