Soundscapes offer rich descriptions of composite acoustic environments. Characterizing marine soundscapes simply through sound levels results in incomplete descriptions, limits the understanding unique features, and impedes meaningful comparisons. Sources that contribute to level metrics shift time space with changes biological patterns, physical forces, human activity. The presence a constant ...

Soundscape is an important part of landscape perception. As environmental element creating the whole space city —— Acoustic Environment, it has been paid more and attention to studied gradually. With improvement urbanization living conditions in China, people's mental health problems are gradually increasing. However, studies on restoration soundscape consider how perceived affects individual’s...

The negative effects of loud anthropic sounds on non-human health and welfare urges attention. We report here the results a technical study we conducted attending Public Prosecutor’s request at Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. A Civil Inquiry informed against nocive human concentration captive free-living animals around municipal zoo. zoo is part natural protected area that paradoxically was used as...

Introduction The use of audio cues in computer interfaces has seen a remarkable development in recent years with the general proliferation of soundcards and sound sources. The audio schemes in the Microsoft Windows operating systems, for example, offer the association between a rich set of system events and sounds. The events most commonly encountered are, perhaps, login and logoff events, noti...

We report an empirical study into the creation of, and response to, a soundscape of a computer centre. We contrast the use of presence questionnaires, as means of assessing the sense of being-there, against a more phenomenological approach. We conclude that we have been able to create a strong sense of place but uncovered a number of experimental / procedural issues.

Anthropogenic noise is debatably one of the most common threats to national parks' resources. Park visitors and workers generally suffer from adverse effects of noise from on- and off-road vehicles. The parks, studied here, are located in strictly urban areas, surrounded by streets with intense vehicle traffic. This study assesses the soundscape of urban parks in two cities of Odisha State, on ...

Anthropogenic noise is debatably one of the most common threats to national parks' resources. Park visitors and workers generally suffer from adverse effects of noise from on- and off-road vehicles. The parks, studied here, are located in strictly urban areas, surrounded by streets with intense vehicle traffic. This study assesses the soundscape of urban parks in two cities of Odisha State, on ...