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TY - JOUR
T1 - Perception of soundscapes
T2 - an interdisciplinary approach
AU - Davies, William J.
AU - Adams, Mags D.
AU - Bruce, Neil S.
AU - Cain, Rebecca
AU - Carlyle, Angus
AU - Cusack, Peter
AU - Hall, Deborah A.
AU - Hume, Ken I.
AU - Irwin, Amy
AU - Jennings, Paul
AU - Marselle, Melissa
AU - Plack, Christopher J.
AU - Poxon, John
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - This paper takes an overall view of findings from the Positive Soundscape Project, a large inter-disciplinary soundscapes study. Qualitative fieldwork (soundwalks and focus groups) have found that soundscape perception is influenced by cognitive effects such as the meaning of a soundscape and its components, and how information is conveyed by a soundscape, for example on the behaviour of people within the soundscape. Three significant clusters were found in the language people use to describe soundscapes: sound sources, sound descriptors and soundscape descriptors. Results from listening tests and soundwalks have been integrated to show that the two principal dimensions of soundscape emotional response seem to be calmness and vibrancy. Further, vibrancy seems to have two aspects: organisation of sounds and changes over time. The possible application of the results to soundscape assessment and design are briefly discussed.
AB - This paper takes an overall view of findings from the Positive Soundscape Project, a large inter-disciplinary soundscapes study. Qualitative fieldwork (soundwalks and focus groups) have found that soundscape perception is influenced by cognitive effects such as the meaning of a soundscape and its components, and how information is conveyed by a soundscape, for example on the behaviour of people within the soundscape. Three significant clusters were found in the language people use to describe soundscapes: sound sources, sound descriptors and soundscape descriptors. Results from listening tests and soundwalks have been integrated to show that the two principal dimensions of soundscape emotional response seem to be calmness and vibrancy. Further, vibrancy seems to have two aspects: organisation of sounds and changes over time. The possible application of the results to soundscape assessment and design are briefly discussed.
KW - Soundscape
KW - Soundwalk
KW - Emotion
KW - Perception
KW - Noise
KW - URBAN SOUNDSCAPES
KW - PREFERENCE
KW - SPACES
KW - MODEL
U2 - 10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.05.010
DO - 10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.05.010
M3 - Journal article
VL - 74
SP - 224
EP - 231
JO - Applied Acoustics
JF - Applied Acoustics
SN - 0003-682X
IS - 2
ER -