Enhancing the park experience by giving visitors control over the park's soundscape

IF 1.8 4区计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments Pub Date : 2022-03-18 DOI:10.3233/ais-220621

Toon De Pessemier, T. V. Renterghem, K. Vanhecke, A. All, Karlo Filipan, Kang Sun, B. D. Coensel, L. Marez, L. Martens, D. Botteldooren, W. Joseph

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Abstract

Sound pollution is an ever growing problem in modern society, and especially in urban environments. In this paper, we investigate if and how artificial sounds can improve the experience of visitors of an urban park with a lot of traffic noise. By using a mobile app, park visitors can control the sound playback by selecting the natural sounds they like, such as birds or a waterfall, and setting the volume. This process of adding artificial sounds to the existing sound environment results in an augmented soundscape. Comparison of the environment with and without this sound playback showed that most visitors experience this as an improvement of the park environment and enjoy controlling the sounds. An experiment with 165 users identified various correlations between the visitors’ subjective evaluations of the sound environment and objective measures of their usage behavior with the app, such as the number of interactions and the spent time.

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通过让游客控制公园的音景，增强公园的体验

在现代社会，尤其是城市环境中，声污染是一个日益严重的问题。在本文中，我们研究了人工声音是否以及如何改善城市公园中大量交通噪音的游客体验。通过使用手机应用程序，公园游客可以通过选择他们喜欢的自然声音，如鸟叫声或瀑布声，并设置音量来控制声音播放。在现有声音环境中添加人工声音的过程会产生增强的音景。有和没有声音播放的环境比较表明，大多数游客认为这是对公园环境的改善，并且喜欢控制声音。一项有165名用户参与的实验发现，访问者对声音环境的主观评价与他们使用应用程序的客观衡量(如互动次数和花费的时间)之间存在各种相关性。

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Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

17.60%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) serves as a forum to discuss the latest developments on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and Smart Environments (SmE). Given the multi-disciplinary nature of the areas involved, the journal aims to promote participation from several different communities covering topics ranging from enabling technologies such as multi-modal sensing and vision processing, to algorithmic aspects in interpretive and reasoning domains, to application-oriented efforts in human-centered services, as well as contributions from the fields of robotics, networking, HCI, mobile, collaborative and pervasive computing. This diversity stems from the fact that smart environments can be defined with a variety of different characteristics based on the applications they serve, their interaction models with humans, the practical system design aspects, as well as the multi-faceted conceptual and algorithmic considerations that would enable them to operate seamlessly and unobtrusively. The Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments will focus on both the technical and application aspects of these.