Experience sampling: Assessing urban soundscapes using in-situ participatory methods

Craig, Adam; Moore, David; Knox, Don

doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2016.05.026

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“…Based on existing schemata of sonic categories, we generated an analytical framework from within the data. Following an extensive process of listening through participants' descriptions, and taking into consideration prior work in both perceptual science and applied acoustics (Bregman 1993;Gaver 1993;Kogan et al, 2016;Craig et al, 2017), the research team arrived at an analytical framework that distinguishes between descriptive, associational, narrative, spatial, and experiential dimensions of listener experience. This framework bears necessary resemblance to Tuuri and Eerola's (2012) denotative dimensions including causal, empathetic, functional, and semantic ways of listening; however they depart in order to stay cohesive in relation to a narrative temporal framework of source identification and perception.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The purpose of our discussion is to give interaction and interface designers a novel take on listener experience in augmented environments. Studies in the evaluation of everyday soundscapes use approaches ranging from card sorting exercises with pre-prescribed sound categories, to retrospective accounts of sound experiences; day-long journaling, with sound being presented to participants as audio recordings or in a real-life context (Kogan et al, 2016;Craig et al, 2017). Kogan et al's (2016) study was set up to actually poll participants about their listening experiences in the moment through a multidimensional questionnaire organized around several components including familiarity, mental and physical state, listening to sound sources, assessment, extra-auditory perception, as well as listener expectations and coherence.…”

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Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes

Droumeva

McGregor

2019

Interacting With Computers

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With an increasing number of everyday operations and communications becoming both automated and autonomous, ambient intelligent soundscapes are transforming to accommodate additional sonic feedback, and with it, new frameworks of listening. While this type of research and design of audio augmented technology is not new, the impact pre-existing acoustic environments upon listeners’ sense-making activities is rarely considered holistically. Much of the study into the design of effective auditory displays focuses on perceptual acuity and correct source identification, often at the expense of understanding the context of meaning-making. This paper presents a study involving 70 participants who listened to unidentified audio recordings of two archetypal everyday urban sound environments naturally containing artificial signals as well as typical sounds. Using a ThinkAloud protocol we investigated listeners’ approaches to meaning-making in both semantic and temporal dimensions. Through a semantic content analysis, we articulate five aspects of sonic meaning-making: spatial, descriptive, experiential, associational and narrative. We further analyse the use of these perceptual elements on a temporal plane, in order to investigate how listeners construct a narrative of what they hear in real-time, naturally evolving as each subsequent sound event is interpreted. Results suggest that while listeners attend to sound events and spatial characteristics of a sound environment at the beginning of a new listening situation, as the soundscape unfolds they utilize associations and familiarity in order to place individual sounds into increasingly coherent narratives. Finally, we suggest that this approach could provide sound designers and human–computer interaction specialists with a model for investigating the context aspects of a soundscape more holistically, allowing them to evaluate the effect of any new designed sounds prior to introduction into real-world environments.

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Section: Analytical Framework -Semantic Content Analysismentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes

Droumeva

McGregor

2019

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“…28 This framework is supported by Craig, Moure and Knox, who postulate that the variation in perception of soundscape is attributable to the contextual issues that face the listener. 7 One other important variable that effects soundscape perception is expectation. The expectation of soundscape can be defined as "a strong belief that something will happen or to be the case in the future, or the series of events which are anticipated prior to an experience".…”

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An integrated framework on soundscape perception and spatial experience by adapting post-occupancy evaluation methodology

Aburawis

Yörükoğlu

2018

Building Acoustics

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The effecting factors of soundscape perception and space experience have a very close relationship. This study aims to synthesize the diversity of soundscape classifications and schemes and unify such factorial variations in order to develop an integrated framework for soundscape perception and spatial experience within a systematic review of recent progress and by adapting post-occupancy evaluation methodology. First, factors under soundscape perception and space experience are reviewed in detail and merged to form conceptual classification models. Six soundscape perception factors are formed as (1) sonic, (2) spatial, (3) temporal, (4) psychological, (5) behavioural and (6) personal. Similarly, five space experience factors are formed as (1) user, (2) usage, (3) architectural design, (4) social context and (5) physical environment. All related items in the literature are presented and the sub-items under each factor are exemplified. Second, factors under the merged conceptual models are integrated by considering occupants' experience of space regarding their variance in perception of soundscapes through acoustical post-occupancy evaluation. An adapted study design is proposed under indicative, investigative and diagnostic stages of the post-occupancy evaluation by presenting the methods, data types and factorial correlations for each stage.

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“…Part 3 of the ISO 12913 series builds on Part 2 and provides guidelines for analyzing data gathered using only those methods [6]. However, the range of possible methodological approaches to soundscape data collection is much broader and it includes, for instance, laboratory experiments [2,7,8], pseudo-randomized experience sampling [9], and even non-participatory studies [10]. The protocol described in this paper was designed having in mind the need for a relatively large soundscape dataset that could be used for design and modeling purposes, thus trying to expand the scope of soundwalks that typically deal with much smaller samples of participants [11].…”

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The Soundscape Indices (SSID) Protocol: A Method for Urban Soundscape Surveys—Questionnaires with Acoustical and Contextual Information

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A protocol for characterizing urban soundscapes for use in the design of Soundscape Indices (SSID) and general urban research as implemented under the European Research Council (ERC)-funded SSID project is described in detail. The protocol consists of two stages: (1) a Recording Stage to collect audio-visual recordings for further analysis and for use in laboratory experiments, and (2) a Questionnaire Stage to collect in situ soundscape assessments via a questionnaire method paired with acoustic data collection. Key adjustments and improvements to previous methodologies for soundscape characterization have been made to enable the collation of data gathered from research groups around the world. The data collected under this protocol will form a large-scale, international soundscape database.

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Experience sampling: Assessing urban soundscapes using in-situ participatory methods

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes

Sound Stories: A Context-Based Study of Everyday Listening to Augmented Soundscapes

An integrated framework on soundscape perception and spatial experience by adapting post-occupancy evaluation methodology

The Soundscape Indices (SSID) Protocol: A Method for Urban Soundscape Surveys—Questionnaires with Acoustical and Contextual Information

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