The past two decades have seen an ongoing paradigm shift from noise control to soundscaping, and soundscape approaches been applied in management projects. However, cost-benefit analysis (CBA), which is widely used for economic appraisal of projects that would impact on the sound environment, remains noise-based residential-location-focused. As a result, benefits wanted sounds are omitted appra...

This paper report on the ongoing work with our WISP, a weakly intrusive ambient soundscape which conveys information to a recipient by means of subtle sound cues. Our WISP is stationary in personal or shared locations and does not depend on wearable sound generation. This poses several interesting problems, especially in shared spaces where the soundscapes from different users mix, interfere an...

Loss of vision is a severe impairment to the dominant sensory system. It often has a catastrophic effect upon the sufferer, with knock-on effects to their standard of living, their ability to support themselves, and their care-givers lives. Research into visual impairments is multi-faceted, focusing on the causes of these debilitating conditions as well as attempting to alleviate the daily live...

This paper reports an empirical study to investigate how individuals perceive and classify elements of their workplace auditory environments. The participants were 18 university employees chosen for their varying degrees of room occupancy, from single occupants through to those sharing with up to 11 colleagues. Participants in single rooms were expected to have greater control over their audito...

People use sound both consciously and unconsciously to understand their surroundings. As we spend more time in a setting, whether in our car or our favorite cafe, we gain a sense of the soundscape the aggregate acoustic characteristics in the environment. Our project aims to test whether the acoustic environment in different areas of Stanford campus are distinct enough for a machine learning al...

O campo de estudo em paisagem sonora (soundscape), que considera a percepção do usuário ao ambiente acústico dentro um contexto, está ganhando força nos últimos anos, função da necessidade superar abordagem gerenciamento dos ambientes urbanos baseados apenas políticas controle ruído. Com isso, houve aumento no número publicações científicas e tecnológicas relacionadas soundscape. presente traba...