In this thesis, we describe the problems with music learning at home. With the emphasis on exercises of interval and harmonic dictation that the students must sing. When they are at home, they don't have access to a teacher who would give them feedback about the correctness of the sang exercise. We developed two games of harmonic and interval dictation that use the microphone on a mobile phone to record sound. They extract notes from the sound recording and then present them to the user in the user interface. We included the game into the existing platform Trubadur that is already used in class at the Conservatory for music and ballet in Ljubljana. At first, we developed the games for the Android mobile platform and later we added support for the IOS platform.
At the Conservatory, we evaluated two versions of the user interface with first year students. We found out that the game's educational content is appropriate for these students. We gathered feedback that was later used to improve the application and we found out that the users preferred the second evaluated version of the user interface.
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