Audio-visual interactions in environment assessment
Authors:
- Anna Preis,
- Jędrzej Kociński,
- Honorata Hafke-Dys,
- Małgorzata Wrzosek
Abstract
The aim of the study was to examine how visual and audio information influences audio-visual environment assessment. Original audio-visual recordings were made at seven different places in the city of Poznań. Participants of the psychophysical experiments were asked to rate, on a numerical standardized scale, the degree of comfort they would feel if they were in such an environment. The assessments of audio-visual comfort were carried out in a laboratory in four different conditions: (a) audio samples only, (b) original audio-visual samples, (c) video samples only, and (d) mixed audio-visual samples. The general results of this experiment showed a significant difference between the investigated conditions, but not for all the investigated samples. There was a significant improvement in comfort assessment when visual information was added (in only three out of 7 cases), when conditions (a) and (b) were compared. On the other hand, the results show that the comfort assessment of audio-visual samples could be changed by manipulating the audio rather than the video part of the audio-visual sample. Finally, it seems, that people could differentiate audio-visual representations of a given place in the environment based rather of on the sound sources' compositions than on the sound level. Object identification is responsible for both landscape and soundscape grouping.
- Record ID
- UAM1ce8c893a7d7495bbc90cad65ce5df7c
- Author
- Journal series
- Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697
- Issue year
- 2015
- Vol
- 523
- Pages
- 191-200
- ASJC Classification
- ; ; ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.128 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 40
- Score source
- journalList
- Score
- Publication indicators
- = 50; = 55; : 2015 = 1.642; : 2015 (2 years) = 3.976 - 2015 (5 years) =4.317
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info/article/UAM1ce8c893a7d7495bbc90cad65ce5df7c/
- URN
urn:amu-prod:UAM1ce8c893a7d7495bbc90cad65ce5df7c
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