Effects of contexts in urban residential areas on the pleasantness and appropriateness of natural sounds

• Main Authors: Hong, Joo Young, Lam, Bhan, Ong, Zhen-Ting, Ooi, Kenneth, Gan, Woon-Seng, Kang, Jian, Yeong, Samuel, Lee, Irene, Tan, Sze-Tiong
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Physics::Acoustics; Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology; Soundscape; Noise Pollution
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144038
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Before introducing natural sounds to potentially improve the soundscape quality, it is important to understand how key contextual factors (i.e. expected activities and audio-visual congruency) affect the soundscape in a given location. In this study, the perception of eight natural sounds (i.e. 4 bi...