Merging physical parameters and laboratory subjective ratings for the soundscape assessment of urban squares

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 782-790

  Brambilla, Giovanni ^a   Maffei, Luigi ^b   Di Gabriele, Maria ^b   Gallo, Veronica ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; OBJECTIVE PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION MODELING; SONIC ENVIRONMENTS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MERGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VIDEO RECORDING;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 84880497796     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4768792     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. B. Blesser and L.-R. Salter, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? (The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2007), pp. 1-9.
2. B. Schulte-Fortkamp and D. Dubois, " Recent advances in soundscape research.," Acta Acust. Acust. 92 (6), V-VIII (2006).
3. J. Kang, Urban Sound Environment (Taylor Francis, London, 2006), p. 273.
4. M. Raimbault and D. Dubois, " Urban soundscapes: Experiences and knowledge.," Cities 22 (5), 339-350 (2005). 10.1016/j.cities.2005.05.003
5. M. Southwork, " The sonic environment of cities.," Environ. Behav. 1 (1), 49-70 (1969).
6. J. Y. Jeon, P. J. Lee, J. Y. Hong, and D. Cabrera, " Non-auditory factors affecting urban soundscape evaluation.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130 (6), 3761-3770 (2011). 10.1121/1.3652902
7. B. Hellström, M. Nilsson, P. Becker, and P. Lundén, " Acoustic design artifacts and methods for urban soundscapes.," in Proceedings of ICSV15, Daejeon, Korea, paper No. SS0182 (2008).
8. A. Fiebig, V. Acloque, S. Basturk, M. Di Gabriele, M. Horvat, M. Masullo, R. Pieren, K. S. Voigt, M. Yang, K. Genuit, and B. Schulte-Fortkamp, " Education in soundscape-A seminar with young scientists in the COST Short Term Scientific Mission Soundscape-Measurement, Analysis, Evaluation.," in Proceedings of 20th International Congress on Acoustics, Sydney, Australia, paper No. p 809 (2010).
9. M. Rychtáriková and G. Vermeir, " Soundscape categorization on the basis of objective acoustical parameters.," Appl. Acoust. 74, 240-247 (2013). 10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.01.004
10. Ö. Axelsson, M. E. Nilsson, and B. Berglund, " A principal components model of soundscape perception.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128 (5), 2836-2846 (2010). 10.1121/1.3493436
11. B. De Coensel, D. Botteldooren, K. Debacq, M. E. Nilsson, and B. Berglund, " Clustering outdoor soundscapes using fuzzy ants.," in Proceedings of 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008) (2008), pp. 1556-1562.
12. L. Yu and J. Kang, " Modeling subjective evaluation of soundscape quality in urban open spaces: An artificial neural network approach.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126 (3), 1163-1174 (2009). 10.1121/1.3183377
13. K. Herranz-Pascual, I. Aspuru, and I. García, " Proposed conceptual model of environmental experience as framework to study the soundscape.," in Proceedings of InterNoise 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, paper No. 445 (2010).
14. TC 43/WG54: Acoustics-Soundscape-Part 1: Definition and Conceptual Framework, ISO/CD 12913-1 (2011).
15. G. Brambilla and L. Maffei, " Perspective of the soundscape approach as a tool for urban space design.," Noise Control Eng. J. 58 (5), 532-539 (2010). 10.3397/1.3484180
16. M. Di Gabriele, L. Maffei, G. Brambilla, V. Gallo, and P. Verardi, " Towards a soundscape classification of urban spaces.," in Proceedings of Forum Acusticum 2011, Aalborg, Denmark (2011), pp. 1989-1993.
17. M. Adams, N. Bruce, W. Davies, R. Cain, P. Jennings, A. Carlyle, P. Cusack, K. Hume, and C. Plack, " Soundwalking as methodology for understanding soundscapes.," in Proceedings Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference, Reading, UK (2008), Vol. 30, Pt. 2, pp. 548-554.
18. J. M. Grey, J. W. Gordon, " Perceptual effects of spectral modifications on musical timbres.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 63 (5), 1493-1500 (1978). 10.1121/1.381843
19. C. Guastavino, B. F.G. Katz, J.-D. Polack, D. J. Levitin, and D. Dubois, " Ecological validity of soundscape reproduction.," Acta Acust. Acust. 91, 333-341 (2005).
20. C. Lavandier and B. Defréville, " The contribution of sound source characteristics in the assessment of urban soundscapes.," Acta Acust. Acust. 92, 912-921 (2006).
21. W. Yang and J. Kang, " Acoustic comfort evaluation in urban open public spaces.," Appl. Acoust. 66 (2), 211-229 (2005). 10.1016/j.apacoust. 2004.07.011
22. J. Kang and M. Zhang, " Semantic differential analysis of the soundscape in urban open public spaces.," Build. Environ. 45, 150-157 (2010). 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.05.014
23. H. Fastl and E. Zwicker, Psychoacoustics. Facts and Models, 3rd ed. (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2006), p. 447.
24. Ö. Axelsson, " May information load be the key dimension underlying soundscape perception?," in Proceedings of Internoise 2009, Ottawa, Canada, paper No. IN09-473 (2009).
25. R. Cain, P. Jennings, J. Poxon, and A. Scott, " Emotional dimensions of a soundscape.," in Proceedings of Internoise 2009, Ottawa, Canada (2009), pp. 734-741.
26. R. Cain, P. Jennings, and J. Poxon, " The development and application of the emotional dimensions of a soundscape.," Appl. Acoust. 74, 232-239 (2013). 10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.11.006
27. G. Brambilla, P. Verardi, M. Di Gabriele, and L. Maffei, " Urban soundscape appraisal in laboratory: A tool for testing and improving urban renewal.," in Proceedings of Euronoise 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland, paper No. SSC10 (2009).