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Motorized Recreation Sounds Influence Nature Scene Evaluations: The Role of Attitude Moderators

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Soundscape assessment takes many forms, including letting the consequences of the soundscape be an indicator of soundscape quality or value. As a result, much social science research has been conducted to better quantify problem soundscapes and the ...
Jacob Benfield, B. D. Taff, David Weinzimmer, Peter Newman   +3 more
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Soundscape Approach for Analyzing and Evaluation Acoustic Environment in Urban Parks [PDF]

Port Said Engineering Research Journal, 2016
Soundscape –the acoustic equivalent of the landscape- presents better ways to analyze, evaluate and develop acoustic environment, it is a relatively new area to many. Most studies have focused on the study of sounds as a passive perception factor –how to
Osama Abo Eleinen, Ghada Elrayies, Reem Hussein   +2 more
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Soundscape design in city parks: exploring the relationships between soundscape composition parameters and physical and psychoacoustic parameters

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 2015
Soundscape design in city parks is important for a better visiting experience. The aim of this research is to find a more effective way to design soundscapes in city parks, by exploring the relationships between certain physical and psychoacoustic ...
Jiang Liu, Jian Kang
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Soundscape and subjective factors affecting residents’ evaluation of aircraft noise in the communities under flight routes

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionAircraft noise is one of the most significant sources of environmental pollution in large cities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, strict lockdown in community might increase residents’ discomfort with the noise, which could disrupt public ...
Fei Qu, Fei Qu, Fei Qu, Zhuoming Li, Tongtong Zhang, Tongtong Zhang, Wenjun Huang   +6 more
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Improving the quality of the acoustic environment in neonatal intensive care units: a review of scientific literature and technological solutions

Frontiers in Computer Science, 2023
There is an increased awareness of how the quality of the acoustic environment impacts the lives of human beings. Several studies have shown that sound pollution has adverse effects on many populations, from infants to adults, in different environments ...
Sara Lenzi, Simone Spagnol, Elif Özcan, Elif Özcan   +3 more
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Impact of the Classic Chinese Garden Soundscape With Focus on Physiological and Psychological Effects, Tested Through Eye-Tracking, and Subjective Evaluation

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Soundscape has been valued and practiced in classical Chinese garden designs. Some authentic patterns were even mentioned and used in gardening books hundreds of years ago.
Minkai Sun, Lu Dong
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Cross-National Comparison of Soundscape in Urban Public Open Spaces between China and Croatia

Applied Sciences, 2020
There are similarities and differences between open public space soundscape evaluation in different countries, mainly due to the influence of cultural background.
Lingtong Deng, Jian Kang, Wei Zhao, Kristian Jambrošić   +3 more
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Public Space Users’ Soundscape Evaluations in Relation to Their Activities. An Amsterdam-Based Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Understanding the relationship between people and their soundscapes in an urban context of innumerable and diverse sensory stimulations is a difficult endeavor.
Edda Bild, Karin Pfeffer, Matt Coler, Ori Rubin, Luca Bertolini   +4 more
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Ecological Validity of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) Techniques for the Perception of Urban Sound Environments

Acoustics, 2020
Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) is a simulated technology used to deliver multisensory information to people under different environmental conditions.
Chunyang Xu, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Huan Tong, Jian Kang   +4 more
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Context‐centric proactive information delivery for Knowledge Work support: Opportunities, challenges, and directions. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST)

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Context‐centric proactive information delivery (PID) is a relatively underexplored domain within recommender systems (RS) aimed at enhancing Knowledge Workers' productivity by proactively providing relevant information during digital tasks.
Mahta Bakhshizadeh, Christian Jilek, Markus Schröder, Heiko Maus, Andreas Dengel   +4 more
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