The semantic space of vehicle sounds: Developing a semantic differential with regard to customer perception

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 13-20

  Altinsoy, M Ercan ^a   Jekosch, Ute ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON LANGUAGES; COMPLEX PROCESSES; CUSTOMER PERCEPTIONS; CUSTOMER QUALITY; DRIVING CONDITIONS; RELEVANCE AND REDUNDANCIES; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; SEMANTIC SPACE; SOUND PROPERTIES; SOUND QUALITY; VEHICLE SOUND QUALITY;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84859074103     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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