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 Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-45747 UR - https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/article/4/8/084401/3308052/Effects-of-noise-sensitivity-and-listening-effort N1 - Datenverfürbarkeitserklärung: Daten, die die Ergebnisse dieser wissenschaftlichen Publikation stützen, sind auf begründete Anfrage beim korrespondierenden Autoren erhältlich. 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 ER - TY - GEN A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Schwörer, Paul A1 - Prinz, Lukas A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - OPRA: Akustische Analyse musikalischer Aufführungsräume im Browser T1 - OPRA: acoustical analysis of musical performance spaces in a web 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. 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 - THES A1 - Rosenthal, Fabian T1 - Einsatz und Anpassung von Methoden der Audio-Feature-Extraktion am Beispiel von Indoor Soundscapes T1 - The application of audio feature extraction methods to the analysis of indoor soundscapes. N2 - Im häuslichen Umfeld erleben Menschen abhängig von ihrer Wohnsituation unterschiedlichste Geräuschumgebungen (Indoor Soundscapes), die einen hohen Einfluss auf das Wohlbefinden haben. Im Rahmen einer Feldstudie wurde daher die theoretisch und praktisch relevante Frage untersucht, welche Merkmale der wahrgenommenen Geräuschumgebungen als besonders ereignisreich oder angenehm bewertet werden. Einhundertfünf Teilnehmer*innen berichteten nach der Experience-Sampling-Methode zeitgesteuert über auftretende Geräuschumgebungen des häuslichen Alltags. Sie bewerteten deren subjektive Wirkung gemäß Soundscape-Standard. Zudem fertigten sie in-situ Audioaufnahmen der Geräuschszenarien an. Die 6594 Tonaufnahmen wurden einer Audioinhaltsanalyse unterzogen und im Zuge dessen wurden vier Featuresets verschiedener Berechnungsansätze extrahiert. Mithilfe der Perzentilen LASSO-Regularisierung wurden lineare gemischte Modelle für Angenehmheit und Ereignisreichtum sowie drei Multilevel-Modelle für Angenehmheit aufgestellt. Die besten Modelle erklären 9 % der Varianz von Angenehmheit und 27 % der Varianz von Ereignisreichtum durch feste Effekte selektierter Prädiktoren aller getesteten Featuresets. Angenehmheit sinkt vor allem, wenn lautheitsbasierte Features hohe Werte zeigen. Ereignisreichtum ist am stärksten abhängig von kurzen Spitzen des C-bewerteten Schalldruckpegels und wird im Vergleich zu Angenehmheit stärker von Zeitschwankungen der Features bestimmt. Durch den Vergleich der Featuresets wird deutlich, dass die Modelleffekte bekannter psychoakustischer Größen durch Hinzufügen von MFCC-Features verbessert werden. Darüber hinaus wird anhand von Multilevel-Modellen gezeigt, dass die Angenehmheit des lautesten Viertels der Tonaufnahmen deutlich besser durch feste Effekte erklärbar ist als der leisere Rest des Datensatzes. Kongruent mit aktuellen Befragungsstudien kann durch Audiofeatures eine Kategorienabhängigkeit der Soundscape-Bewertungen belegt werden: Musik und Sprache werden als angenehmer bewertet, technische Geräusche und Anlagenrauschen hingegen als unangenehmer. Hoher Ereignisreichtum hängt mit menschgemachten Geräuschen (z. B. Poltern, Stuhlrücken) zusammen. Diese Ergebnisse stellen eine wichtige Komponente in der umfassenden Beschreibung komplexer Geräuschumgebungen dar und ihnen kommt in Zeiten der SARS-CoV-2-Pandemie, in denen Wohnraum vermehrt heterogen genutzt werden muss, eine erhöhte Bedeutung zu. N2 - Depending on their living situation, people experience a wide variety of indoor soundscapes in their home environment, which have a major impact on their well-being. As part of a field study, the theoretically and practically relevant question of which features of the perceived soundscapes are rated as particularly eventful or pleasant was therefore investigated. One hundred and five participants used the experience sampling method to report on noise environments that occur in everyday domestic life. They assessed their subjective impact according to the soundscape standard. They also made in-situ audio recordings of the sound scenarios. The 6594 sound recordings were subjected to an audio content analysis and four feature sets of different calculation approaches were extracted. Using percentile LASSO regularisation, linear mixed models for pleasantness and event richness and three multilevel models for pleasantness were constructed. The best models explain 9 % of the variance of pleasantness and 27 % of the variance of event richness by fixed effects of selected predictors of all tested feature sets. Pleasantness decreases especially when loudness-based features show high values. Event richness is most dependent on short peaks of the C-weighted sound pressure level and is more strongly determined by time variations of the features compared to pleasantness. By comparing the feature sets, it becomes clear that the modelling effects of known psychoacoustic quantities are improved by adding MFCC features. In addition, multilevel models show that the pleasantness of the loudest quarter of the sound recordings can be explained much better by fixed effects than the quieter rest of the data set. Congruent with current survey studies, a category dependency of the soundscape evaluations can be proven by audio features: Music and speech are rated as more pleasant, while technical noises and system noise are rated as more unpleasant. High event richness is related to man-made noises (e.g. rumbling, chair backs). These results represent an important component in the comprehensive description of complex noise environments and they are of increased importance in times of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, when living space must be used increasingly heterogeneously. KW - Soundscapes KW - Audio features KW - Audio Analyse Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-43991 N1 - Supplementary material to the thesis "Einsatz und Anpassung von Methoden der Audio-Feature-Extraktion am Beispiel von Indoor Soundscapes". DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11060721 CY - Düsseldorf 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/ 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 CY - Würzburg ER -