Noise annoyance and restoration in different courtyard settings: Laboratory experiments on audio-visual interactions

Turkish Acoustical Society - 36th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2007 ISTANBUL

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 3720-3729

  Gidlöf Gunnarsson, Anita ^a   Öhrström, Evy ^a   Ögren, Mikael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH NATIONAL ROAD AND TRANSPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO-VISUAL INTERACTIONS; EMOTIONAL REACTIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NOISE ANNOYANCE; RESTORATIVE ENVIRONMENT; ROAD TRAFFIC; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SOUND LEVEL; SOUNDSCAPES; URBAN RESIDENTIAL AREAS; VISUAL APPEARANCE; WELLBEING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOACOUSTICS; EXHIBITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; HOUSING; NOISE POLLUTION; RESTORATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84873942729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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