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.

• 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• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed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