The role of audio-visual interaction on the perception of tranquillity

8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 31, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages

  Pheasant, R J ^a   Watts, G R ^a   Horoshenkov, K V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO-VISUAL; AUDIO-VISUAL INTERACTIONS; NATURAL FEATURES; PREDICTION TOOLS; RURAL ENVIRONMENT; SENSORY INFORMATION; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; VISUAL MODALITIES;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84864704095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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