On the study of the effects of sea views, greenery views and personal characteristics on noise annoyance perception at homes

Li, Hak Nang; Chau, Chi Kwan; Tse, Mun Yee Mimi; Tang, Shiu Keung

doi:10.1121/1.3681936

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“…The proposed methodology seems to allow the investigation of the potential effects of the introduction of new infrastructure in an existing environment and to define in advance the better project choices that facilitate the preservation of both acoustic and visual quality of the environment [8,9,10,11,12,13]. However, extended experimental sessions are needed to make more robust its ecological validity, particularly by comparing the results of in situ evaluations.…”

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“…Additionally, he includes the much more extensive rural areas in which the main aim is not recreation, but agriculture or similar: all these areas can express different soundscapes that people enjoy. In general, it is evident that people find scenarios involving naturalistic or rural as more relaxing to listen to and less visually disturbing [8,9,10,11,12,13]. …”

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The Effects of Vision-Related Aspects on Noise Perception of Wind Turbines in Quiet Areas

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Iachini

Masullo

et al. 2013

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Preserving the soundscape and geographic extension of quiet areas is a great challenge against the wide-spreading of environmental noise. The E.U. Environmental Noise Directive underlines the need to preserve quiet areas as a new aim for the management of noise in European countries. At the same time, due to their low population density, rural areas characterized by suitable wind are considered appropriate locations for installing wind farms. However, despite the fact that wind farms are represented as environmentally friendly projects, these plants are often viewed as visual and audible intruders, that spoil the landscape and generate noise. Even though the correlations are still unclear, it is obvious that visual impacts of wind farms could increase due to their size and coherence with respect to the rural/quiet environment. In this paper, by using the Immersive Virtual Reality technique, some visual and acoustical aspects of the impact of a wind farm on a sample of subjects were assessed and analyzed. The subjects were immersed in a virtual scenario that represented a situation of a typical rural outdoor scenario that they experienced at different distances from the wind turbines. The influence of the number and the colour of wind turbines on global, visual and auditory judgment were investigated. The main results showed that, regarding the number of wind turbines, the visual component has a weak effect on individual reactions, while the colour influences both visual and auditory individual reactions, although in a different way.

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The Effects of Vision-Related Aspects on Noise Perception of Wind Turbines in Quiet Areas

Maffei

Iachini

Masullo

et al. 2013

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“…Selected studies make use of different study designs, that are laboratory tests [16,[18][19][20][21]24,25,32,34,36,[41][42][43]47] and field campaigns based on socio-acoustic [15,17,22,23,26,28,35,37,39,40,45,46,[48][49][50][51], social surveys [29][30][31]33,38,44], or soundscape assessments [27]. Laboratory studies evaluate testers' response to experimental stimuli in laboratory settings, under controlled conditions.…”

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Assessment Methods and Factors Determining Positive Indoor Soundscapes in Residential Buildings: A Systematic Review

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The design of an indoor acoustic environment positively perceived by building occupants requires a perceptual approach to be adopted in order to define what makes it sound good. Soundscape standards ISO 12913 have been introduced to assess how the acoustic environment is perceived, in context, by people. According to the standards, a straightforward characterization of a soundscape as positive is currently possible only through measurements by persons, because of a current gap in linking perceptual metrics to acoustic or psychoacoustic measurements. In addition, despite applying also to indoor contexts, methods and perceptual metrics described by the standards have been mainly derived from studies related to outdoor urban environments and it is not clear whether they could be directly applied indoor. For this reason, a systematic review was performed to investigate: (i) Data collection methods used in the literature for indoor residential soundscapes and (ii) factors, output of such methods, that characterize them positively. For this purpose, a systematic review has been conducted in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses) guidelines. The Scopus database was searched for peer-reviewed journal papers published in English, between 1 January 2009 and 24 June 2019, including: (1) field or laboratory studies relevant to residential buildings and (2) studies assessing factors that influence the perception by building users of indoor acoustic environments. The search excluded studies related to: (a) Speech perception issues; (b) noise-induced sleep disturbance; (c) acoustic perception by hearing impaired building users; (d) perception of vibrations or impact sounds. The search returned 1087 results. After the screening process, 37 articles were finally included. Given the differences in methodologic approaches, a quantitative meta-analysis could not be performed, and a qualitative approach was adopted instead. A large part of the selected literature reflected a general effort of minimizing noise annoyance by reducing noise exposure and, in particular, noise levels. Questionnaires and guided interviews were used to capture people’s perception, while the adoption of soundwalks and non-participatory behavioral studies did not emerge in the review literature and need further investigation. The evaluation of a variety of auditory sensations both in their positive and negative dimensions, beyond annoyance, would be required to explore the positive perceptual potential of sounds. Besides sound level, a variety of factors related and unrelated to the acoustic environment were found to affect perceptual outcomes and a framework of evaluation has been proposed as a reference for future assessments. Results encourage the integration of soundscape methodologies into IEQ research, in order to enhance user health and well-being.

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“…While studies in this area tend to examine aspects of positive mental health, such as relaxation, satisfaction and general happiness [1, 22, 32, 41–45, 54, 55], we are only aware of one other study implementing a multi-dimensional measure of mental wellbeing. The study was based on a small selective sample in deprived areas of Scotland, and investigated the association between local green space proportions and mental wellbeing, of which the results were mixed and inconclusive [56].…”

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A cross-sectional analysis of green space prevalence and mental wellbeing in England

2017

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BackgroundWith urbanisation increasing, it is important to understand how to design changing environments to promote mental wellbeing. Evidence suggests that local-area proportions of green space may be associated with happiness and life satisfaction; however, the available evidence on such associations with more broadly defined mental wellbeing in still very scarce. This study aimed to establish whether the amount of neighbourhood green space was associated with mental wellbeing.MethodsData were drawn from Understanding Society, a national survey of 30,900 individuals across 11,096 Census Lower-Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in England, over the period 2009–2010. Measures included the multi-dimensional Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) and LSOA proportion of green space, which was derived from the General Land Use Database (GLUD), and were analysed using linear regression, while controlling for individual, household and area-level factors.ResultsThose living in areas with greater proportions of green space had significantly higher mental wellbeing scores in unadjusted analyses (an expected increase of 0.17 points (95% CI 0.11, 0.23) in the SWEMWBS score for a standard deviation increase of green space). However, after adjustment for confounding by respondent sociodemographic characteristics and urban/rural location, the association was attenuated to the null (regression coefficient B = − 0.01, 95% CI -0.08, 0.05, p = 0.712).ConclusionsWhile the green space in an individual’s local area has been shown through other research to be related to aspects of mental health such as happiness and life satisfaction, the association with multidimensional mental wellbeing is much less clear from our results. While we did not find a statistically significant association between the amount of green space in residents’ local areas and mental wellbeing, further research is needed to understand whether other features of green space, such as accessibility, aesthetics or use, are important for mental wellbeing.

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On the study of the effects of sea views, greenery views and personal characteristics on noise annoyance perception at homes

Cited by 45 publications

References 38 publications

The Effects of Vision-Related Aspects on Noise Perception of Wind Turbines in Quiet Areas

The Effects of Vision-Related Aspects on Noise Perception of Wind Turbines in Quiet Areas

Assessment Methods and Factors Determining Positive Indoor Soundscapes in Residential Buildings: A Systematic Review

A cross-sectional analysis of green space prevalence and mental wellbeing in England

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