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Evaluations of Sound and Vibration in the Built Environments

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 12037

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Pyoung-Jik Lee

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School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
Interests: building acoustics; environmental noise and health; soundscape; perception of sound and vibration
Dr. Sang-Hee Park

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Department of Living and Built Environment Research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT), 283 Goyang-daero, Daehwa-dong, Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Interests: person-environment interaction; psychology; acoustic environment
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health welcomes submissions for a Special Issue of the journal. This Special Issue will focus on evaluations of sound and vibration in the built environments.

The built environment has a substantial impact on our lives. It contributes to noise and air pollution, water pollution, energy consumption, impacts on human health, and climate change. In addition, most people spend around two-thirds of their time inside, for example, at home and workpaces. In response, there are numerous local, national, and international entities adopting green and sustainable criteria for a better acoustic environment. The primary objective of this Special Issue is to introduce the research and innovations aiming at creating a sustainable acoustic environment that reduces noise and vibration exposures and creates a better acoustic environment for wellbeing. This Special Issue also deals with sustainable approaches for a built environment by considering technical, behavioral, and social issues and by examining how acoustic environments affect human performance and wellbeing. Therefore, the Special Issue will cover the various dimensions of the sustainable built environment, such as urban soundscape design, open-plan office, dwellings, and classrooms. Specifically, this Special Issue will cover psychological studies which investigate perception of noise and vibration in the built environment. This issue will also deal with physiological evaluations of noise and vibration through field measurement and laboratory experiments.

Dr. Pyoung-Jik Lee
Dr. Sang-Hee Park
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • annoyance caused by noise and vibration
  • perception of sound and vibration
  • psycho-physiological effects of noise and vibration on human
  • environmental health impact assessment
  • acoustic design and planning
  • soundscape assessment
  • noise and quality of life

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Background Noise, Noise Sensitivity, and Attitudes towards Neighbours, and a Subjective Experiment Using a Rubber Ball Impact Sound
by Jeongho Jeong
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(14), 7569; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147569 - 16 Jul 2021
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When children run and jump or adults walk indoors, the impact sounds conveyed to neighbouring households have relatively high energy in low-frequency bands. The experience of and response to low-frequency floor impact sounds can differ depending on factors such as the duration of [...] Read more.
When children run and jump or adults walk indoors, the impact sounds conveyed to neighbouring households have relatively high energy in low-frequency bands. The experience of and response to low-frequency floor impact sounds can differ depending on factors such as the duration of exposure, the listener’s noise sensitivity, and the level of background noise in housing complexes. In order to study responses to actual floor impact sounds, it is necessary to investigate how the response is affected by changes in the background noise and differences in the response when focusing on other tasks. In this study, the author presented subjects with a rubber ball impact sound recorded from different apartment buildings and housings and investigated the subjects’ responses to varying levels of background noise and when they were assigned tasks to change their level of attention on the presented sound. The subjects’ noise sensitivity and response to their neighbours were also compared. The results of the subjective experiment showed differences in the subjective responses depending on the level of background noise, and high intensity rubber ball impact sounds were associated with larger subjective responses. In addition, when subjects were performing a task like browsing the internet, they attended less to the rubber ball impact sound, showing a less sensitive response to the same intensity of impact sound. The responses of the group with high noise sensitivity showed an even steeper response curve with the same change in impact sound intensity. The group with less positive opinions of their neighbours showed larger changes in their subjective response, resulting in the expression of stronger opinions even to the same change in loudness of the impact sound. It was found that subjective responses were different when subjects were performing activities of daily living, such as reading or watching TV in the evening, and when they were focused on floor impact sounds in the middle of the night. Full article
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Subjective Salience of Birdsong and Insect Song with Equal Sound Pressure Level and Loudness
by Yoshiharu Soeta and Ayaka Ariki
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(23), 8858; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238858 - 28 Nov 2020
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Birdsong is used to communicate the position of stairwells to visually impaired people in train stations in Japan. However, more than 40% of visually impaired people reported that such sounds were difficult to identify. Train companies seek to present the sounds at a [...] Read more.
Birdsong is used to communicate the position of stairwells to visually impaired people in train stations in Japan. However, more than 40% of visually impaired people reported that such sounds were difficult to identify. Train companies seek to present the sounds at a sound pressure level that is loud enough to be detected, but not so loud as to be annoying. Therefore, salient birdsongs with relatively low sound pressure levels are required. In the current study, we examined the salience of different types of birdsong and insect song, and determined the dominant physical parameters related to salience. We considered insect songs because both birdsongs and insect songs have been found to have positive effects on soundscapes. We evaluated subjective saliences of birdsongs and insect songs using paired comparison methods, and examined the relationships between subjective salience and physical parameters. In total, 62 participants evaluated 18 types of bird songs and 16 types of insect sounds. The results indicated that the following features significantly influenced subjective salience: the maximum peak amplitude of the autocorrelation function, which signifies pitch strength; the interaural cross-correlation coefficient, which signifies apparent source width; the amplitude fluctuation component; and spectral content, such as flux and skewness. Full article
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Attitudes to Noise Inside Dwellings in Three Megacities: Seoul, London, and São Paulo
by Pyoung Jik Lee, Carl Hopkins and Rafaella Penedo
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(16), 6005; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17166005 - 18 Aug 2020
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This study investigated people’s attitudes towards noise inside their homes. Online questionnaire surveys were conducted in Seoul, London, and São Paulo. The questionnaire was designed to assess annoyance caused by noise from neighbours and environmental noise (transportation). Information was also collected on situational, [...] Read more.
This study investigated people’s attitudes towards noise inside their homes. Online questionnaire surveys were conducted in Seoul, London, and São Paulo. The questionnaire was designed to assess annoyance caused by noise from neighbours and environmental noise (transportation). Information was also collected on situational, personal, and socio-demographic variables. Respondents that were more annoyed by outdoor noise inside their dwelling reported higher neighbour noise annoyance. In Seoul, neighbour noise was found to be more annoying than outdoor noise, and those with higher noise sensitivity reported higher annoyance towards neighbour noise. However, neighbour noise and outdoor noise was found to be equally annoying in London and São Paulo. For neighbour noise, the average percentage of respondents hearing structure-borne sources compared to airborne sources differed in each city. Most neighbour noise sources in São Paulo gave rise to higher annoyance ratings than Seoul and London. Education and income levels had a limited effect on annoyance and coping strategy. Annoyance with indoor noise from neighbours was found to have stronger relationships with cognitive and behavioural coping strategies than outdoor noise annoyance. Full article
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Effects of the Musical Sound Environment on Communicating Emotion
by Qi Meng, Jiani Jiang, Fangfang Liu and Xiaoduo Xu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(7), 2499; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072499 - 6 Apr 2020
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The acoustic environment is one of the factors influencing emotion, however, existing research has mainly focused on the effects of noise on emotion, and on music therapy, while the acoustic and psychological effects of music on interactive behaviour have been neglected. Therefore, this [...] Read more.
The acoustic environment is one of the factors influencing emotion, however, existing research has mainly focused on the effects of noise on emotion, and on music therapy, while the acoustic and psychological effects of music on interactive behaviour have been neglected. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of music on communicating emotion including evaluation of music, and d-values of pleasure, arousal, and dominance (PAD), in terms of sound pressure level (SPL), musical emotion, and tempo. Based on acoustic environment measurement and a questionnaire survey with 52 participants in a normal classroom in Harbin city, China, the following results were found. First, SPL was significantly correlated with musical evaluation of communication: average scores of musical evaluation decreased sharply from 1.31 to −2.13 when SPL rose from 50 dBA to 60 dBA, while they floated from 0.88 to 1.31 between 40 dBA and 50 dBA. Arousal increased with increases in musical SPL in the negative evaluation group. Second, musical emotions had significant effects on musical evaluation of communication, among which the effect of joyful-sounding music was the highest; and in general, joyful- and stirring-sounding music could enhance pleasure and arousal efficiently. Third, musical tempo had significant effect on musical evaluation and communicating emotion, faster music could enhance arousal and pleasure efficiently. Finally, in terms of social characteristics, familiarity, gender combination, and number of participants affected communicating emotion. For instance, in the positive evaluation group, dominance was much higher in the single-gender groups. This study shows that some music factors, such as SPL, musical emotion, and tempo, can be used to enhance communicating emotion. Full article
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