Methods for assessing preschool children's perception and experience of their soundscape

Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA - 35th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2006

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 3759-3766

  Waye, Kerstin Persson ^a   Samuelsson, Lena ^b   Agge, Agneta ^a   Dellve, Lotta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; GROUNDED THEORY; PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOUNDSCAPES;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; EXHIBITIONS; SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84867951922     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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