Subjective assessment of listening environments in university classrooms: Perceptions of students

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 299-309

  Kennedy, Susan M ^a   Hodgson, Murray ^a   Edgett, Lisa Dillon ^a   Lamb, Noelle ^a   Rempel, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSROOM-LISTENING QUALITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX;

EDUCATION; MEASUREMENTS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE;

STUDENTS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEAT; SPEECH; STUDENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNIVERSITY; VISUAL AID; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 30844454217     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2139629     Document Type: Article

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