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

Toon De Pessemier (UGent) , Timothy Van Renterghem (UGent) , Kris Vanhecke (UGent) , Anissa All (UGent) , Karlo Filipan, Kang Sun, Bert De Coensel (UGent) , Lieven De Marez (UGent) , Luc Martens (UGent) , Dick Botteldooren (UGent) , et al.
(2022) JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS. 14(2). p.99-118
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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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STRESS RECOVERY, PERCEPTION, QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTS, INTELLIGENCE, LANDSCAPE, User experience, quality of experience, soundscape, living lab, augmented environment

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MLA
De Pessemier, Toon, et al. “Enhancing the Park Experience by Giving Visitors Control over the Park’s Soundscape.” JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS, vol. 14, no. 2, 2022, pp. 99–118, doi:10.3233/AIS-220621.
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De Pessemier, T., Van Renterghem, T., Vanhecke, K., All, A., Filipan, K., Sun, K., … Joseph, W. (2022). Enhancing the park experience by giving visitors control over the park’s soundscape. JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS, 14(2), 99–118. https://doi.org/10.3233/AIS-220621
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De Pessemier, Toon, Timothy Van Renterghem, Kris Vanhecke, Anissa All, Karlo Filipan, Kang Sun, Bert De Coensel, et al. 2022. “Enhancing the Park Experience by Giving Visitors Control over the Park’s Soundscape.” JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS 14 (2): 99–118. https://doi.org/10.3233/AIS-220621.
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De Pessemier, Toon, Timothy Van Renterghem, Kris Vanhecke, Anissa All, Karlo Filipan, Kang Sun, Bert De Coensel, Lieven De Marez, Luc Martens, Dick Botteldooren, and Wout Joseph. 2022. “Enhancing the Park Experience by Giving Visitors Control over the Park’s Soundscape.” JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS 14 (2): 99–118. doi:10.3233/AIS-220621.
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De Pessemier T, Van Renterghem T, Vanhecke K, All A, Filipan K, Sun K, et al. Enhancing the park experience by giving visitors control over the park’s soundscape. JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS. 2022;14(2):99–118.
IEEE
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T. De Pessemier et al., “Enhancing the park experience by giving visitors control over the park’s soundscape,” JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 99–118, 2022.
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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.}},
  author       = {{De Pessemier, Toon and Van Renterghem, Timothy and Vanhecke, Kris and All, Anissa and Filipan, Karlo and Sun, Kang and De Coensel, Bert and De Marez, Lieven and Martens, Luc and Botteldooren, Dick and Joseph, Wout}},
  issn         = {{1876-1364}},
  journal      = {{JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS}},
  keywords     = {{STRESS RECOVERY,PERCEPTION,QUALITY,ENVIRONMENTS,INTELLIGENCE,LANDSCAPE,User experience,quality of experience,soundscape,living lab,augmented environment}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{99--118}},
  title        = {{Enhancing the park experience by giving visitors control over the park's soundscape}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.3233/AIS-220621}},
  volume       = {{14}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}
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