Influence of visual setting on sound ratings in an urban environment

Viollon, Stéphanie; Lavandier, Catherine; Drake, Carolyn

doi:10.1016/s0003-682x(01)00053-6

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“…In the context of soundscapes, such systems are already in development [25]. Furthermore, investigations have shown the influence that vision has on audio [26] (and vice-versa [27]) so it is important to take into account the visual domain in interactive simulation too. Given the huge number of variables and unknowns for a soundscape, it is accepted that a similar accuracy could not yet be obtained for an artificially created soundscape as for interior vehicle sounds.…”

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A framework for improving urban soundscapes

Jennings¹,

Cain²

2013

Applied Acoustics

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A framework for improving urban soundscapes

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Cain²

2013

Applied Acoustics

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“…All the visual information had different ways and different efficiencies in affecting the auditory judgement. The more urban the visual settings were, the more contaminated was the auditory judgement (Viollon et al 2002;Guastavino et al 2006;Zhang and Kang 2007). The aural-visual interaction was also studied in the field of product sound quality.…”

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Effect of sound-related activities on human behaviours and acoustic comfort in urban open spaces

Meng

Kang

2016

Science of The Total Environment

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Human activities are important to landscape design and urban planning; however, the effect of sound-related activities on human behaviours and acoustic comfort has not been considered. The objective of this study is to explore how human behaviours and acoustic comfort in urban open spaces can be changed by sound-related activities. On-site measurements were performed at a case study site in Harbin, China, and an acoustic comfort survey was simultaneously conducted. In terms of effect of sound activities on human behaviours, music-related activities caused 5.1-21.5% of persons who pass by the area to stand and watch the activity, while there was a little effect on the number of persons who performed excises during the activity. Human activities generally have little effect on the behaviour of pedestrians when only 1 to 3 persons are involved in the activities, while a deep effect on the behaviour of pedestrians is noted when more than 6 persons are involved in the activities. In terms of effect of activities on acoustic comfort, music-related activities can increase the sound level from 10.8 to 16.4 dBA, while human activities such RS and PC can increase the sound level from 9.6 to 12.8 dBA; however, they lead to very different acoustic comfort. The acoustic comfort of persons can differ with activities, for example the acoustic comfort of persons who stand watch can increase by music-related activities, while the acoustic comfort of persons who sit and watch can decrease by human sound-related activities. Some sound-related activities can show opposite trend of acoustic comfort between visitors and citizens. Persons with higher income prefer music sound-related activities, while those with lower income prefer human sound-related activities.

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“…Despite the growing evidence that vegetation by itself affects noise perception positively [4][5][6][7][8], this aspect is not treated in this paper which is concerned, primarily, with systems for physical noise reduction.…”

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Using natural means to reduce surface transport noise during propagation outdoors

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a b s t r a c tThis paper reviews ways of reducing surface transport noise by natural means. The noise abatement solutions of interest can be easily (visually) incorporated in the landscape or help with greening the (sub)urban environment. They include vegetated surfaces (applied to faces or tops of noise walls and on buildings' façades and roofs), caged piles of stones (gabions), vegetation belts (tree belts, shrub zones and hedges), earth berms and various ways of exploiting ground-surface-related effects. The ideas presented in this overview have been tested in the laboratory and/or numerically evaluated in order to assess or enhance the noise abatement they could provide. Some in-situ experiments are discussed as well. When well designed, such natural devices have the potential to abate surface transport noise, possibly by complementing and sometimes improving common (non-natural) noise reducing devices or measures. Their applicability strongly depends on the available space reserved for the noise abatement and the receiver position.

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Influence of visual setting on sound ratings in an urban environment

Cited by 247 publications

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A framework for improving urban soundscapes

A framework for improving urban soundscapes

Effect of sound-related activities on human behaviours and acoustic comfort in urban open spaces

Using natural means to reduce surface transport noise during propagation outdoors

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