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Push!Music is a mobile, peer-to-peer music listening and sharing application that is supposed to act as a source of inspiration for listening to new music and as a new way of recommending music to other people.

Push!Music currently runs on WiFi-enabled PDAs and allows users to actively recommend songs by sending (or “pushing”) music to other users in the proximity. Users can also get spontaneous music recommendations as songs recommend themselves: songs that either come from your own music collection or from another user's device nearby!

We have developed a concept of media agents to explore how to implement the ideas above. To learn more about this concept and about the Push!Music project, go here.

From alot of recent media attention, and blog activities, we've noticed that there seems to be some common missunderstandings about the project. Some clarifications about these can be found here.

January 2006:
What a beginning of the new year! ;-) Push!Music is getting a lot of attention in the media as well as in numerous blogs, see for example: New Scientist, The Inquirer and Slashdot.

Autumn 2005:
We have conducted a successful two-week study of the Push!Music application, and we are now analysing the results and preparing for a new design iteration.

Project members:
Maria Håkansson (design & evaluation)
Mattias Jacobsson (design & agent theory)
Mattias Rost (design & implementation)

Push!Music is conducted at:
Future Applications Lab
Viktoria Institute

Push!Music is part of the ECAgents project, sponsored by the Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Community (IST-1940).