Visualising the soundfield and soundscape: extending Macaulay and Crerar’s 1998 method

McGregor, Iain; Crerar, Alison; Benyon, David; LePl�tre, Gr�gory

Abstract

The introduction of effective auditory warnings into a shared environment requires a prior understanding of the existing soundfield and soundscape. Reifying the physical and perceptual auditory environment enables a form of pre-auditioning, as well as the evaluation of any auditory augmentation. This paper describes the development of a visualisation technique for soundscape mapping. Building on earlier published work in sound classification, we report data captured using eighteen participants in a shared office environment. The resulting sound classification is used as the basis of a pictorial soundscape and soundfield visualisation. We show how this representation can be used to model the experiences of individuals, as well as subsets of users of the space.

Citation

McGregor, I., Crerar, A., Benyon, D., & LePlâtre, G. (2008, June). Visualising the soundfield and soundscape: extending Macaulay and Crerar’s 1998 method. Presented at ICAD 2008: The 14th annual International Conference on Auditory Display, Paris, France

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: ICAD 2008: The 14th annual International Conference on Auditory Display
• Start Date: Jun 24, 2008
• End Date: Jun 27, 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Deposit Date: Jan 19, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 19, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Auditory Display
• Keywords: soundfield; soundscape; auditory environment; classification
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3487
• Publisher URL: https://www.icad.org/Proceedings/2008/McGregorCrerar2008.pdf
• Contract Date: Jan 19, 2010