TY - CHAP A1 - Serditova, Dana A1 - Tang, Kevin A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Automatic Speech Recognition Biases in Newcastle English: an Error Analysis T2 - Interspeech 2025, 17 - 21 August in Rotterdam KW - Automatische Spracherkennung KW - Soziolinguistik KW - Mundart KW - Bias Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1973 SP - 3204 EP - 3208 PB - ISCA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Wolf, Anna-Christina A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Schiavio, Andrea ED - Daffern, Helena ED - Glasser, Solange ED - Osborne, Margaret ED - Martinez, Isabel C. ED - Marchiano, Maria ED - Blas Pérez, Joaquin ED - Kempf, Adrian ED - Norton, Naomi ED - Gibbs, Hannah J. ED - Owen, Caroline ED - Kirts, Connor G. ED - O’Neill, Katherine ED - Jackson, Rebecca T1 - Preferences patterns in music requests on a radio show for children [Abstract] T2 - ESCOM12 (York, La Plata & Melbourne) – The 12th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music: Book of Abstracts N2 - Background Previous research has observed vast changes in musical preference during childhood and adolescence due to developmental processes such as the experience of aesthetic responses to music (Nieminen et al., 2012) and the formation and expression of social identity through distinct musical preferences (Hargreaves et al., 2016). Most of this research, however, is either based on the evaluation of musical pieces that have been previously selected by adult experimenters, or self-reports on preferences for different musical styles. Aim(s) This study presents another methodological approach by collecting and analysing music that was freely requested on a children’s radio show. The aim was to test to what extent findings from self-reports and ratings of pre-selected music apply to this kind of data. Methods A sample of 1412 freely and publicly expressed music requests of children between 4 and 11 years was taken from a German radio program and analysed with regard to age- and sex-specific differences. The music was categorized into genres as listed on Spotify and examined by methods of Music Information Retrieval provided by the Spotify Developer API. Additionally, the music was genre-independently classified as children’s music. Results Results showed that, at younger ages, the requests were generally more evenly distributed across different genres. Regarding single genres, logistic regression models revealed small positive relationships between age and the likelihood of requesting the genres Pop and Electro and small negative relationships between age and the likelihood of requesting Acapella, German songwriter, Indie, theme songs, and children's music. Furthermore, contingency table analyses showed that boys requested significantly more Rock and Hip Hop, whereas girls had a higher tendency to ask for Pop. Finally, age was negatively correlated with the Spotify features valence and liveness of the requested music, which was related to the higher preference for children’s music at younger ages. Discussion and Conclusion The results suggest that previous findings regarding musically expressed gender roles and increasing formation of distinct genre preferences during infancy also apply to single song requests made on a radio show. References Hargreaves, D. J., North, A. C., & Tarrant, M. (2016). How and why do musical preferences change in childhood adolescence. In G. McPherson (Ed.), The child as musician: A handbook of musical development (Second edition). Oxford University Press. Nieminen, S., Istók, E., Brattico, E., & Tervaniemi, M. (2012). The development of the aesthetic experience of music: Preference, emotions, and beauty. Musicae Scientiae, 16(3), 372–391. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864912450454 KW - Musikwahrnehmung KW - Hörfunk KW - Kindheitsforschung Y1 - 2024 SP - 257 EP - 258 PB - Universität Graz CY - Graz ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hunke, Til A1 - Huber, Florian A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - The Evolution of Song Lyrics: An NLP-Based Analysis of Popular Music in Germany from 1954 to 2022 JF - Music & Science N2 - Music is an indispensable cultural product, reflecting changes in social, psychological, and cultural contexts. This study analyzes the historical evolution of topics and conveyed affect in popular music lyrics in Germany from 1954 to 2022, using LDA-based topic modeling and transformer-based sentiment analysis. These results show that Love & Relationships is the most referenced topic, with Dreams & Longings prominent until the mid-1960s and Society & Status rising from 2017. The sentiment analysis reveals a significant decline in positive sentiment since the mid-1960s, accompanied by increases in negative, ambiguous, and neutral sentiments. These trends may reflect broader societal changes, including shifts in cultural values, rising individualism, and increasing mental health issues. The study highlights the evolving nature of popular music and its reflection of social dynamics. KW - Popmusik KW - Maschinelles Lernen KW - Automatische Sprachanalyse Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-52618 SN - 2059-2043 VL - 8 PB - Sage Publications ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Klein, Paula A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Birwe, Dagmar A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Can the Perceived Spatial Impression of Classical Recordings Be Predicted by Audio Descriptors? [Vortrag] T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2024 N2 - The perceived spatial impression is an important factor in the aesthetic appreciation of classical music recordings. Crucial aspects of spatial perception can be described by the attributes ensemble width, depth, envelopment, and reverberation duration. In a listening experiment, a sample of 30 experts rated 24 orchestra recordings by these attributes. To compare these ratings to signalrelated measures of spatial impression, an audio descriptor for the interaural cross-correlation coefficient in music recordings was chosen as a measure of perceived ensemble width. A second algorithm estimated the reverberation time from decay segments in the recorded music. Linear mixed-effects models were then used to test whether these two descriptors, combined with other audio features related to timbre, are suitable for predicting participants’ ratings of the perceptual attributes. Overall, results confirmed that the signal-related measures used can indeed predict perceptual attributes, with 41% of rating variance explained in the case of reverberation duration. In contrast, these objective measures turned out to be less accurate predictors of the perceived ensemble width, with a variance explanation of 21%. This study can thus be regarded as a starting point for further studies aiming to predict the perceived spatial impression in music recordings. KW - Audio Desciptors KW - räumliche Wahrnehmung KW - Raumakustik KW - Räumliches Hören KW - Klassische Musik KW - Musikaufnahme Y1 - 2024 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2024/files/upload/paper/213.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-22-5 SP - 1034 EP - 1037 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Wolf, Anna-Christina A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Age- and Sex-Related Differences in Music Requests on a Radio Show for Children JF - Music & Science N2 - In research on the development of musical preferences, children are often asked either to evaluate musical pieces that have been previously selected by adult experimenters, or to give self-reports on preferences for different musical styles. This study involved analyzing a sample of 1,412 freely and publicly expressed music requests from children aged between 4 and 11 years taken from a German radio program, with regard to age- and sex-specific differences. The music was categorized into genres, as listed on Spotify, and examined using methods of music information retrieval provided by the Spotify Developer application programming interface. Results showed that, at younger ages, the requests were generally more evenly distributed across different genres. Regarding single genres, we observed small positive relationships between age and the likelihood of requesting the genres pop or electro and small negative relationships between age and the likelihood of requesting A capella, German songwriter, indie, theme songs, or children's music. Furthermore, we found that boys requested significantly more rock or hip-hop, whereas girls had a higher tendency to ask for pop. Finally, age- (but no sex-) related differences regarding the Spotify features of valence and liveness of the requested music were found, which were related to the preference for children's music at younger ages. The results thus suggest that previous findings regarding differences between boys and girls and an increasing formation of distinct genre preferences during infancy also apply to single song requests made on a radio show. KW - children’s music KW - children’s musical preferences KW - genre preferences KW - music requests KW - musical identity KW - DFG Publikationskosten KW - HSD Publikationsfonds Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-46588 SN - 2059-2043 N1 - Funding: Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 532148125 and supported by the central publication fund of Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. VL - 7 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Sage Publications ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan T1 - Day-to-day loudness assessments of indoor soundscapes: Exploring the impact of loudness indicators, person, and situation JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America N2 - This study investigates loudness perception in real-world contexts using predictors related to the sound, situation, or person. In the study, 105 participants recorded 6594 sound environments in their homes, which were then evaluated based on the Experience Sampling Method. Hierarchical linear regressions using a loudness level based on ISO 532-1 allowed for obtaining the best model fits for predicting perceived loudness and explaining the highest variance. LAeq and LAF5 provided comparable results and may require less computational effort. However, the analysis shows that only one-third of the variance explained by fixed effects was attributable to the loudness level. Sixteen percent stemmed from perceived properties of the soundscape; 1% were attributable to relatively temporally stable, person-related predictors like participants' age; non-auditory situational predictors made no additional contribution. The results thus did not confirm previous findings on loudness perception under laboratory conditions, emphasizing the importance of the situational context. Along with the current paper, a comprehensive dataset, including the assessed person-related, situational, and sound-related measures as well as LAeq time-series and third-octave spectrograms, is provided to enable further research on sound perception, indoor soundscapes, and emotion. KW - Lautwahrnehmung KW - Akustische Eigenschaft KW - Hörschädigung KW - Lautstärke KW - Audiometrie KW - Sonogramm KW - Regressionsanalyse KW - Gauß-Prozess KW - Auditory perception KW - Acoustical properties KW - Hearing impairment KW - Loudness perception KW - Audiometry KW - Acoustic noise control KW - Spectrograms KW - Acoustic ecology KW - Regression analysis KW - Gaussian processes Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-46127 SN - 0001-4966 VL - 153 IS - 5 SP - 2956 EP - 2972 PB - Acoustical Society of America (ASA) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Himmelein, Hendrik A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Effects of noise sensitivity and listening effort on perceptual ratings of background noise JF - JASA Express Letters N2 - Previous research suggests that noise sensitivity is related to inefficient auditory processing that might increase the mental load of noise and affect noise evaluation. This assumption was tested in an experiment using a dual-task paradigm with a visual primary task and an auditory secondary task. Results showed that participants' noise sensitivity was positively correlated with mental effort. Furthermore, mental effort mediated the effect of noise sensitivity on loudness and unpleasantness ratings. The results thus support the idea that noise sensitivity is related to increased mental effort and difficulties in filtering auditory information and that situational factors should be considered. KW - noise sensitivity KW - listening effort KW - Geräuschempfindlichkeit KW - Höranstrengung KW - HSD Publikationsfonds KW - DFG Publikationskosten Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-45747 SN - 2691-1191 N1 - Funding: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – 532148125 und durch den zentralen Publikationsfonds der Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. VL - 8 IS - 4 PB - AIP Publishing ER - TY - GEN A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Schwörer, Paul A1 - Prinz, Lukas A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - OPRA: Akustische Analyse musikalischer Aufführungsräume im Browser T2 - Akustik Journal N2 - Der Aufführungsraum leistet einen substantiellen Beitrag zum Erleben von Musikdarbietungen. Zur Beschreibung der Akustik von Aufführungsräumen haben sich dabei zahlreiche Messgrößen etabliert, welche bestimmte Wahrnehmungsqualitäten, wie z. B. die Halligkeit, abbilden sollen. Dem stellt jüngere Forschung rein perzeptive Messinventare gegenüber, die den Wahrnehmungseindruck als solchen, losgelöst vom physikalischen Ursprung, beschreiben. Dieser Artikel beschreibt einen Versuch, diese beiden Forschungsrichtungen zusammenzuführen, indem Bewertungen von Aufführungsräumen nach dem perzeptiven Room Acoustical Quality Index (RAQI) durch physikalische Messgrößen modelliert wurden, welche aus einfachen Impulsantwortmessungen ermittelt werden. Dazu wurde eine Auswahl raumakustischer Messgrößen auf fünf Dimensionen reduziert und diese als Prädiktoren für die einzelnen Wahrnehmungsgrößen des RAQI getestet. Die Berechnung dieser Prädiktionsmodelle wird vorgestellt und deren Präzision diskutiert. Anschließend wird die OPRA-Webanwendung vorgestellt, die sowohl die Berechnung der raumakustischen Messgrößen als auch die Prädiktion von RAQI-Wahrnehmungsgrößen für die drei Quellsignale Sprache, Orchester und Solotrompete im Browser ermöglicht. Auch wenn die Präzision der Prädiktionsmodelle noch nicht für alle RAQI-Faktoren zuverlässige Ergebnisse liefert, erlaubt OPRA eine umfangreiche akustische Analyse und eine erste Einschätzung der perzeptiven Wirkung von Aufführungsräumen. N2 - Performance spaces have a substantial influence on the experience of musical performances, and numerous physical measures have been proposed to describe different aspects of the perceptual impact singular of a performance space. Recent research complements these physical measures with purely perceptual inventories that describe the auditory impression as such, and somewhat detached from its physical origin. This article describes an attempt to bring these two research directions together by modelling evaluations of performance spaces according to the subject-centered Room Acoustical Quality Index (RAQI) based on physical measures obtained from simple impulse response measurements. A selection of room acoustical parameters was reduced to five dimensions which were tested then as predictors for the perceptual qualities of the RAQI. The calculation of these prediction models is presented and the models’ prediction performance discussed. Then, the OPRA-online-tool is presented that enables both the calculation of the physical measures and the prediction of RAQI factors for the three source signals speech, orchestra and solo trumpet within the web browser. Even though the precision of the prediction models does not yet provide reliable estimates of all RAQI factors, OPRA allows a first assessment of the perceptual effect of performance spaces on speech and music. T2 - OPRA: acoustical analysis of musical performance spaces in a web browser KW - Raumakustik KW - Webandwendung KW - akustische Wahrnehmung Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.dega-akustik.de/fileadmin/dega-akustik.de/publikationen/akustik-journal/23-03/akustik_journal_2023_03_online_artikel4.pdf SN - 2569-1600 IS - 3 SP - 41 EP - 52 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Schwörer, Paul A1 - Prinz, Lukas A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Analysis of physical and perceptual properties of room impulse responses: development of an online tool T2 - Forum Acusticuum 2023: 10th Convention of European Acoustics Association, Turin, Italy, 11th-15th September 2023 N2 - Over the past decades, research in room acoustics has established several derivative measures of an impulse response, some of which are incorporated in the ISO 3382 standards. These parameters intend to represent perceptual qualities, but were developed without a consistent modeling of room acoustical perception. More recent research proposed comprehensive inventories of room acoustic perception that are purely based on evaluations by human subjects, such as the Room Acoustical Quality Index (RAQI). In this work RA-QI scores acquired for 70 room impulse responses were predicted from room acoustical parameters. Except for Reverberance, the prediction of RAQI factors performed rather poor. In most cases, the sound source had a greater impact on RAQI scores. All analyses are published in an online tool, where users can upload omnidirectional and binaural impulse responses, and instantly obtain and visualize several physical descriptors, as well as predicted RAQI scores for three different sound sources. So far, acceptable prediction accuracy is achieved for Reverberance, Strength, Irregular Decay, Clarity and Intimacy. Larger data sets of evaluated impulse responses are required to improve the model performance and enable reliable predictions of room acoustical quality. Therefore, the administration of RAQI evaluations within the website is currently being developed. Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-41955 PB - EAA ER - TY - GEN A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Rosenthal, Fabian T1 - Extensive crowdsourced dataset of in-situ evaluated binaural soundscapes of private dwellings containing subjective sound-related and situational ratings along with person factors to study time-varying influences on sound perception - research data N2 - The soundscape approach highlights the role of situational factors in sound evaluations; however, only a few studies have applied a multi‐domain approach including sound‐related, person‐related, and time‐varying situational variables. Therefore, we conducted a study based on the Experience Sampling Method to measure the relative contribution of a broad range of potentially relevant acoustic and non‐auditory variables in predicting indoor soundscape evaluations. Here we present the comprehensive dataset for which 105 participants reported temporally (rather) stable trait variables such as noise sensitivity, trait affect, and quality of life. They rated 6.594 situations regarding the soundscape standard dimensions, perceived loudness, and the saliency of its sound components and evaluated situational variables such as state affect, perceived control, activity, and location. To complement these subject‐centered data, we additionally crowdsourced object‐centered data by having participants make binaural measurements of each indoor soundscape at their homes using a low‐(self‐)noise recorder. These recordings were used to compute (psycho‐)acoustical indices such as the energetically averaged loudness level, the A‐weighted energetically averaged equivalent continuous sound pressure level, and the A‐weighted five‐percent exceedance level. This complex hierarchical data can be used to investigate time‐varying non‐auditory influences on sound perception and to develop soundscape indicators based on the binaural recordings to predict soundscape evaluations. KW - Dataset KW - soundscape KW - person factors KW - indoor soundscape KW - acoustic environment KW - non-auditory factors KW - situational factors KW - binaural recording KW - Experience Sampling Method KW - acoustic descriptors Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7193937 N1 - This study was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. “FHprofUnt” funding code: 13FH729IX6. Versions: Version V.01.1 10.5281/zenodo.7858848 Apr 25, 2023 Version V.01.0 10.5281/zenodo.7193938 Mar 7, 2023 CY - Zenodo ET - V.01.1 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Himmelein, H. A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - ”Ich sehe, was Du hörst!” - Verwendung der Pupillometrie zur Messung des Einflusses kognitiver Belastung auf die Geräuschbewertung T2 - Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), Stuttgart Y1 - 2022 CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Anglada-Tort, Manuel A1 - Masters, Nikhil A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - North, Adrian A1 - Müllensiefen, Daniel T1 - The Behavioural Economics of Music: Systematic review and future directions JF - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology N2 - Music-related decision-making encompasses a wide range of behaviours including those associated with listening choices, composition and performance, and decisions involving music education and therapy. Although research programmes in psychology and economics have contributed to an improved understanding of music-related behaviour, historically, these disciplines have been unconnected. Recently, however, researchers have begun to bridge this gap by employing tools from behavioural economics. This article contributes to the literature by providing a discussion about the benefits of using behavioural economics in music-decision research. We achieve this in two ways. First, through a systematic review, we identify the current state of the literature within four key areas of behavioural economics-heuristics and biases, social decision-making, behavioural time preferences, and dual-process theory. Second, taking findings of the literature as a starting point, we demonstrate how behavioural economics can inform future research. Based on this, we propose the Behavioural Economics of Music (BEM), an integrated research programme that aims to break new ground by stimulating interdisciplinary research in the intersection between music, psychology, and economics. Y1 - 2022 SN - 1747-0218 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221113761 SN - 1747-0226 VL - 76 IS - 5 PB - SAGE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Egermann, Hauke A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Grünewald-Schukalla, Lorenz ED - Jóri, Anita ED - Schwetter, Holger T1 - Evidenzbasierte Praxis im Music Branding - Musikalische Markenkommunikation wird erwachsen T2 - Musik & Marken Y1 - 2022 UR - Egermann_Evidenzbasi.pdf SP - 73 EP - 91 PB - Springer Fachmedien CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krause, Amanda A1 - Baker J., David A1 - Groarke, Jenny A1 - Pereira, Ana I. A1 - Liew, Kongmeng A1 - Anglada-Tort, Manuel A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - A global investigation of music listening practices: The influence of country latitude and seasons on music preferences T2 - ICMPC-ESCOM 2021: 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition/11th Triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 28-31 July 2021, Sheffield Y1 - 2021 UR - https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/68858/ PB - ESCOMsociety CY - Sheffield ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Loepthien, Tim A1 - Hantschel, Florian A1 - Ruth, Nicolas A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Shumaker, Randall T1 - Flowerleben beim Musikhören: Die Wichtigkeit situativer und personenbezogener Variablen und Zusammenhänge mit der aktuellen Stimmung T2 - Abstract-Band zur 38. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie Y1 - 2022 PB - Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rosenthal, Fabian A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Audioinhaltsanalyse und Multilevelmodellierung zur Vorhersage der Bewertung von Indoor Soundscapes T2 - Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA) Y1 - 2022 PB - DAGA CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Himmelein, Hendrik T1 - Induced cognitive load influences unpleasantness judgments of modulated noise T2 - Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics Y1 - 2022 CY - Gyeoungju, Südkorea ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Blättermann, Patrick T1 - Subjektive Lautheitsbewertung unter Einfluss situativer und personenbezogener Faktoren T2 - Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA) Y1 - 2022 CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - CHAP A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Prinz, Lukas A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Comparing individual perception of timbre and reverberance BT - Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics N2 - Room reverberation alters the spatial impression and timbre of a sound by modulating its spectral and temporal characteristics. Thus, we argue that, on a perceptual level, reverberation basically breaks down into interaural differences and spectro-temporal cues and that the separation of a perceived timbre into a sound source and a surrounding room is a purely cognitive process. To investigate the connection between the perception of reverberation cues and timbre analysis, the sensitivity for changes in reverberation was compared to timbre perception abilities. The Timbre Perception Test was used to measure the perception of the temporal envelope, spectral centroid, and spectral flux of artificial sounds. Sensitivity for changes in reverberation time was tested with a discrimination task using speech and noise with speech-alike spectral and temporal envelopes as source signals. Musical and acoustical expertise was assessed through the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index and self-reports on experience with and knowledge of acoustics. There was a considerable correlation between timbre and reverberance perception ability, but timbre perception and academic experience predicted only 41% of the variance in reverberance perception. Still, perception abilities related to similar acoustical phenomena seem to be better indicators of listening skills than self-reports on acoustical or musical expertise. KW - Timbre KW - Klangfarbe KW - Reverberation KW - Nachhall Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-38706 UR - https://ica2022korea.org/data/Proceedings_A11.pdf PB - International Commission for Acoustics CY - Gyeoungju, Südkorea ER - TY - JOUR A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan A1 - Müllensiefen, Daniel T1 - Assessing room acoustic listening expertise JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America N2 - Musicians and music professionals are often considered to be expert listeners for listening tests on room acoustics. However, these tests often target acoustic parameters other than those typically relevant in music such as pitch, rhythm, amplitude, or timbre. To assess the expertise in perceiving and understanding room acoustical phenomena, a listening test battery was constructed to measure the perceptual sensitivity and cognitive abilities in the identification of rooms with different reverberation times and different spectral envelopes. Performance in these tests was related to data from the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index, self-reported previous experience in music recording and acoustics, and academic knowledge on acoustics. The data from 102 participants show that sensory and cognitive abilities are both correlated significantly with musical training, analytic listening skills, recording experience, and academic knowledge on acoustics, whereas general interest in and engagement with music do not show any significant correlations. The regression models, using only significantly correlated criteria of musicality and professional expertise, explain only small to moderate amounts (11%–28%) of the variance in the “room acoustic listening expertise” across the different tasks of the battery. Thus, the results suggest that the traditional criteria for selecting expert listeners in room acoustics are only weak predictors of their actual performances. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006574 VL - 150 IS - 4 SP - 2539 EP - 2548 PB - Acoustical Society of America ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Wilczek, Tobias A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan T1 - Junk Food or Haute Cuisine to the Ear? – Investigating the Relationship Between Room Acoustics, Soundscape, Non-Acoustical Factors, and the Perceived Quality of Restaurants JF - Frontiers in Built Environment N2 - Sound and music are well-studied aspects of the quality of experience in restaurants; the role of the room acoustical conditions, their influence on the visitors’ soundscape evaluation and their impact on the overall customer satisfaction in restaurants, however, has received less scientific attention. The present field study therefore investigated whether sound pressure level, reverberation time, and soundscape pleasantness can predict factors associated with overall restaurant quality. In total, 142 persons visiting 12 restaurants in Berlin rated relevant acoustical and non-acoustical factors associated with restaurant quality. Simultaneously, the A-weighted sound pressure level (LA,eq,15) was measured, and the reverberation time in the occupied state (T20,occ) was obtained by measurements performed in the unoccupied room and a subsequent calculation of the occupied condition according to DIN 18041. Results from linear mixed-effects models revealed that both the LA,eq,15 and T20,occ had a significant influence on soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness, whereby the effect of T20,occ was meditated by the LA,eq,15. Also, the LA,eq,15 as well as soundscape pleasantness were significant predictors of overall restaurant quality. A comprehensive structural equation model including both acoustical and non-acoustical factors, however, indicates that the effect of soundscape pleasantness on overall restaurant quality is mediated by the restaurant’s atmosphere. Our results support and extend previous findings which suggest that the acoustical design of restaurants involves a trade-off between comfort and liveliness, depending on the desired character of the place. KW - DOAJ Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-32115 SN - 2297-3362 N1 - The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2021.676009/full#supplementary-material; ut:000655121500001 VL - 676009 PB - Frontiers ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Behbehani, Sami A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Musical DIAMONDS: The influence of situational classes and characteristics on music listening behavior JF - Psychology of Music Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735620968910 SN - 1741-3087 VL - 49 IS - 6 SP - 1532 EP - 1545 PB - sage journals ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Böldt, Sebastian A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Büttner, Clemens A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan T1 - Modellierung von Publikumsgeräuschen bei Veranstaltungen mit Sprache und Musik T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2020: 46. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9991 SP - 850 EP - 853 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wilczek, Tobias A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan T1 - Zum Einfluss der Akustik auf die Qualität von Restaurants. Eine Feldstudie T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2020: 46. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik Y1 - 2020 UR - https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/bitstream/11303/11109/4/wilczek_etal_2020.pdf U6 - https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9999 SP - 854 EP - 857 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Anglada-Tort, Manuel A1 - Keller, Steve A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Müllensiefen, Daniel T1 - The Impact of Source Effects on the Evaluation of Music for Advertising JF - Journal of Advertising Research Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2501/JAR-2020-016 VL - 60 IS - 3 PB - ARF ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Irrgang, Melanie A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Egermann, Hauke T1 - From acceleration to rhythmicity: Smartphone-assessed movement predicts properties of music JF - Journal of New Music Research KW - Accelerometer KW - Embodied Music Cognition KW - Mobile Devices KW - Movement and Computing KW - Music Information Retrieval Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2020.1715447 VL - 4 IS - 7 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Taylor & Francis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Egermann, Hauke A1 - Schoenrock, Andreas A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Towards a common terminology for music branding campaigns JF - Journal of Marketing Management KW - brand identity KW - brand value KW - Music branding KW - Music Branding Expert Terminology (MBET) KW - musical congruity KW - musical meaning Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2020.1713856 N1 - Das Preprint (Accepted Version) ist online verfügbar: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/155624/ (Green Open Access) VL - 36 IS - 1-2 SP - 176 EP - 209 PB - Taylor & Francis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Luizard, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan T1 - Singing in different rooms: Common or individual adaptation patterns to the acoustic conditions? JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000715 N1 - Open Access Veröffentlichung VL - 147 IS - 2 PB - ASA ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Blättermann, Patrick A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Modelling evaluations of low-level sounds in everyday situations using linear machine learning for variable selection JF - Frontiers in Psychology KW - DOAJ Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-23779 SN - 1664-1078 N1 - Supplementary Material The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.570761/full#supplementary-material VL - 11 PB - Frontiers ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Müller, Franz A1 - Schulz, Melanie A1 - Gibson, Samuel T1 - The effect of inattention and cognitive load on unpleasantness judgments of environmental sounds JF - Applied Acoustics Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2020.107278 SN - 0003-682X VL - 164 PB - Elsevier ER -