Similarity and pleasantness assessments of water-fountain sounds recorded in urban public spaces

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3043-3052

  Rådsten Ekman, Maria ^a   Lundén, Peter ^b   Nilsson, Mats E ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTICS; FOUNTAINS;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; PERCEPTUAL PROPERTIES; POTENTIAL TOOL; SOUND CHARACTERS; SPECTRAL FACTORS; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

AUDIO RECORDINGS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PLEASURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECREATIONAL PARK; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SWEDEN; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; PLEASURE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SWEDEN; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948392977     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4934956     Document Type: Article

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