Guidelines for Reporting Core Information From Community Noise Reaction Surveys

Fields, James M.; Jong, R.G. de; Brown, A L; Flindell, Ian H.; Gjestland, Truls; Job, R. F. Soames; Kurra, Selma; Lercher, Peter; Schuemer‐Kohrs, Anke; Vallet, Michel; Yano, Takashi

doi:10.1006/jsvi.1997.1144

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“…How to assess noise annoyance has been investigated thoroughly (e.g. (Schultz, 1978;Levine, 1981;Fields, et al, 1997;Guski, Felscher-Suhr, & Schuemer, 1999;International Organization for Standardization, 2003). Considering noise annoyance as a descriptor, researchers have tried identifying its physical correlates (i.e., indicators).…”

Section: Noise Annoyancementioning

confidence: 99%

Soundscape descriptors and a conceptual framework for developing predictive soundscape models

Aletta

Kang

Axelsson

2016

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Section: Noise Annoyancementioning

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Soundscape descriptors and a conceptual framework for developing predictive soundscape models

Aletta

Kang

Axelsson

2016

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…It has been also found that long-term changes in noise exposure are important for general noise evaluation [48][49][50]. In the five Chinese case study sites a question was asked about the sounds usually heard at home.…”

Section: Influence Of Home Sound Environment On the Sound Preferencementioning

confidence: 99%

Factors influencing the sound preference in urban open spaces

Kang

2010

Applied Acoustics

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In this paper, based on a large scale survey in Europe and China as well as corresponding laboratory studies, the influencing factors on the sound preference evaluation, considering social, demographical, physical, behavioural and psychological facets, have been systematically examined. Various sound types have been considered, including natural, human, mechanical and instrumental sounds. In terms of social/demographical factors, the results suggest that age and education level are two factors which generally influence the sound preference significantly, although the influence may vary with different types of urban open spaces and sounds. With increasing age or education level, people tend to prefer natural sounds and are more annoyed by mechanical sounds. It has also been found that gender, occupation and residence status generally would not influence the sound preference evaluation significantly, although gender has a rather strong influence for certain sound types such as bird sounds. In terms of physical factors (season, time of day), behavioural factors (frequency of coming to the site, reason for coming to the site), and psychological factors (site preference), generally speaking, their influence on the sound preference evaluation is insignificant, except for limited case study sites and certain sound types. The influence of home sound environment, in terms of sounds heard at home, on the sound preference has been found to be generally insignificant, except for certain sounds. It is noted that there are some correlations between social/demographical factors and the studied physical/behavioural/psychological factors, which should be taken into account when considering the influence of individual factors on sound preference . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 AbstractIn this paper, based on a large scale survey in Europe and China as well as corresponding laboratory studies, the influencing factors on the sound preference evaluation, considering social, demographical, physical, behavioural and psychological facets, have been systematically examined based on statistical analyses for each of the nineteen case study sites. Various sound types have been considered, including natural, human, mechanical and instrumental sounds. In terms of social/demographical factors, the results suggest that age and education level are two factors which universally influence the sound preference significantly, although the influence may vary with different types of urban open spaces and sounds. With increasing age or education level, people tend to prefer natural sounds and are more annoyed by mechanical sounds in general. It has also been found that gender, occupation and residence status generally would not influence the sound preference evaluation significantly, although gender has a rather strong influen...

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“…The result of the "rst part of this program, the development of reporting guidelines for socio-acoustic surveys, was published in 1997 [9]. The team's second major project, the development of scienti"cally sound, comparable noise-reaction questions, is the subject of this article.…”

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confidence: 98%