Soundscape Research in VR

Abstract

The Soundscape approach created a very important progress in environmental noise assessment. The data obtained are much more significant than pure measurement data, since the human response to the environment is taken into consideration in several ways, including the multimodal, behavioural, cultural and seasonal context. If these complex scenarios are simulated in Virtual Reality (VR), there are opportunities to study the human responses in a reproducible way but there are severe challenges as concerns the accuracy of the visualization and auralization and the ecological validity of transferring the perceptual impression to the laboratory situation.

Authors 2

1. Michael Vorländer Aachen Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics (IHTA), RWTH Aachen University, Germany

2. Josep Llorca-Bofí Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   IHTA, RWTH Aachen University, Germany / QURBIS, UPC Barcelona, Spain