Xanthe Lowe-Brown

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Xanthe Lowe-Brown is a PhD Student in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Melbourne, holding a PhD scholarship from the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE). Working with an exceptional interdisciplinary supervision team - Dr Greg Wadley (Human-Computer Interaction), Dr Solange Glasser (Music Psychology) and A/Prof Peter Koval (Psychology), Xanthe’s PhD aims to enhance wellbeing outcomes for music listeners by improving recommendation algorithms used by music streaming services such as Spotify to recommend music helps users regulate their emotions. Xanthe completed a Bachelor of Music Performance (Contemporary Guitar) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in 2021 and her Honour's thesis on the individual differences in the experience of Musically-Evoked Chills in 2022, alongside Dr Solange Glasser.

Experience

  • 2022–2026
    PhD Student, University of Melbourne

Education

  • 2022 
    University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Music (Honours)
  • 2022 
    University of Melbourne, Harold Clarke English & Elizabeth English Scholarship
  • 2022 
    University of Melbourne, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) PhD Scholarship
  • 2021 
    University of Melbourne, Leaders in Communities Award (LiCA)
  • 2018 
    University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Music Scholarship
  • 2018 
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne National Merit Scholarship

Publications

  • 2026
    Personalised affect-regulation playlists: A pre-registered experimental test of the iso principle in the general population, Musicae Scientiae
  • 2026
    Designing for Emotion Regulation in Popular Music Apps: Evaluation of MoodDJ, a Novel Spotify Plugin, Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26)
  • 2025
    Would You Tell Spotify How You're Feeling? Exploring Acceptability and Ethics of Emotion-Regulation Plugins for Music Streaming Apps, Proceedings of the 36th Australasian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI '24)
  • 2022
    Does Reality Television-Style Singing Influence Singing Self-Concept?, Journal of Voice
  • 2022
    Descriptions and evaluations of "good singing" in the age of The Voice, Australian Voice
  • 2022
    Individual Differences in the Experience of Musically-Evoked Chills, Honour's Thesis

Research Areas

  • Computer Human Interaction (080602)
  • Psychology (1701)
  • Musicology And Ethnomusicology (190409)

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