Emotional Effect of Car Interior Sounds: Pleasantness and Power and Their Relation to Acoustic Key Features

Affective Evaluations of and Reactions to Exterior and Interior Vehicle Auditory Quality

“…The present research also tested the hypothesis that a!ective evaluations may be di!erent from a!ective reactions [2]. The reasoning behind this is the idea that a!ective reactions concern peoples feelings of, for instance, pleasantness with regard to the sound.…”

“…In addition, another group of participants made ratings rated on a Swedish translation of Bispings [2,3] evaluation scales of powerful}powerless and pleasant}unpleasant.…”

“…Similar to the two-dimensional view of a!ective reactions, Bisping [2,3] proposed that a!ective evaluations are fundamental to the perception of interior car sound quality.…”

“…Sizeable e!orts have been made to improve the exterior and interior sound environment of products, and in such attempts speci"c sound quality metrics have been developed [2]. However, such psychoacoustic metrics do not seem to account for or predict a!ective responses to auditory stimuli [3,4].…”

Auditory-Induced Emotion: A Neglected Channel for Communication in Human-Computer Interaction

“…Studies with artificial sounds comprise, for instance, the experiments by Bisping [28][29] with sounds in the interior of a car, or the ones by Västfjäll et al [7] with sounds in the interior of a commercial aircraft. These studies showed the validity of a two-dimensional space (with pleasantness and either powerfulness [28][29] or activation [7] as coordinates) to classify different affective reactions to artificial sound. In addition, Bisping reported that the different classifications of the engine sounds in the affective space were mainly based in the envelope of the low frequency components.…”