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 - 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 - Elvers, Paul A1 - Fischinger, Timo A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Ginsborg, Jane ED - Lamont, Alexandra T1 - Empowering music - music-induced manipulations of self-esteem T2 - Proceedings of the Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), CD-ROM Y1 - 2015 CY - Manchester ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Elvers, Paul A1 - Fischinger, Timo A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Musikhören als Selbst-Regulation: Musikinduzierte Manipulationen des impliziten und momentanen Selbstwerts T2 - 31. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM) Y1 - 2015 PB - Oldenburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Elvers, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - How empowering music influences performance and risk-behavior in sports: a randomized controlled trial T2 - Proceedings of the Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (Wien, Österreich) Y1 - 2016 CY - Wien ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Elvers, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - The influence of empowering music on performance and risk-behavior in sports: a randomized controlled trial (RCT) T2 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), San Francisco (CA), USA Y1 - 2016 SN - 1-876346-65-5 CY - San Francisco, UA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Elvers, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Ginsborg, Jane ED - Lamont, Alexandra T1 - Motivational music influences decision-making processes but not the execution of a ball-throwing task T2 - Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM): “The expressive interaction with music” (Ghent, Belgium) Y1 - 2017 CY - Ghent ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Elvers, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Goschke, Thomas ED - Bolte, Annette ED - Kirschbaum, Clemens T1 - The influence of motivational music on risk-behavior and ball-throwing performance T2 - TeaP 2017: Abstracts of the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists : Dresden, Germany, March 26-29, 2017 Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3958532946 PB - Pabst Science Publishers CY - Lengerich ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Schlotz, Wolff A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Burger, B. ED - Bamford, J. ED - Carlson, E. T1 - How do the functions of music listening vary across situations and persons? T2 - SysMus 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology 16: Programme, abstracts & proceedings Y1 - 2016 PB - Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä & Finnish Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research CY - Jyväskylä ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Schlotz, Wolff A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Situational and dispositional influences on the functions of music listening T2 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), San Francisco (CA), USA KW - Functions of music Y1 - 2016 SN - 1-876346-65-5 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Schlotz, Wolff A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Wie hören wir Musik? Situative und personenbezogene Einflussfaktoren auf die Funktionen des Musikhörens T2 - Abstract-Band zur Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Schlotz, Wolff A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Ginsborg, Jane ED - Lamont, Alexandra T1 - Situational and dispositional influences on the functions of music listening T2 - Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM): “The expressive interaction with music” (Ghent, Belgium) Y1 - 2017 CY - Ghent ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Büchel, Joachim T1 - Untersuchungen zum Einfluss von Beschleunigungskräften auf die Geräuschbewertung im Fahrzeuginnenraum T2 - 5. DEGA-Symposium "E-Mobilität & Akustik" Y1 - 2011 CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steele, Daniel A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - The role of activity in urban soundscape evaluations T2 - Proceedings of Euronoise 2015, 31 May - 3 June, Maastricht Y1 - 2015 UR - https://www.conforg.fr/euronoise2015/proceedings/data/articles/000248.pdf SP - 1507 EP - 1512 CY - Maastricht ER - TY - GEN A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Untersuchung von Abbeiß- und Kaugeräuschen bei Gebäckkonsum Y1 - 2007 CY - Düsseldorf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Geräuschbeurteilung im Kontext des Wohnumfeldes T2 - ALD-Winterveranstaltung "Nachbarschaftslärm" Y1 - 2013 CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Kang, Jian ED - Chourmouziadou, K. ED - Sakantamis, K. ED - Wang, B. ED - Hao, Y. T1 - Realism and ecological validity of sound quality experiments on household appliances T2 - Soundscape of European Cities and Landscapes: COST TD0804 Final conference : Soundscape of European cities and landscapes Conference location Merano, Italy, 2013-03-22 N2 - Test environments in sound quality research often significantly differ from human’s everyday world. Hence the claim for ecological validity of such experiments is reasonable, but too vague in its bare formulation. The estimation of ecological validity requires theoretical knowledge about the meaning and the totality of factors influencing everyday listening and their interaction. Therefore the influence of “reality factors” on the sound evaluation of household appliances was investigated within the framework of nine experiments. These tests were performed in four different settings with varied reality degrees. The psychological realism and the perceived face validity of the tests were examined by means of interviews. The results reveal, on the one hand, that stimuli are perceived as more pleasant in everyday-like environments. The analysis of the relative judgments shows, on the other hand, that the influence of the experimental realism is moderated by a number of factors. These are the saliency and meaning of the sounds, differences between the assessed devices, and personality traits. The correlation and regression analysis confirms that the perceived sound character is widely independent from experimental realism. However, there is great empirical evidence, that valid assessments of sound quality require the reconstruction of everyday attention and action processes. KW - JASA2019 Y1 - 2013 SN - 9780957691414 SP - 132 EP - 135 PB - Soundscape-COST CY - Oxford ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - When do we judge sounds? – Relevant everyday situations for the estimation of ecological validity of indoor soundscape experiments T2 - International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) 2013, Montréal, Canada Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4800346 N1 - © 2013 Acoustical Society of America CY - Montréal ER - TY - THES A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - "Wie viel Realität braucht der Mensch?" - Untersuchungen zum Einfluss der Versuchsumgebung auf die Geräuschbeurteilung von Haushaltsgeräten Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-3732 PB - Technische Universität CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Kann Filmmusik moralische Urteile von dargebotenen Filmhandlungen beeinflussen? T2 - 34. Abstract-Band zur Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM) Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Schlotz, Wolff T1 - Why listen to music right now? – Towards an inventory measuring the functions of music listening under situational influences T2 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), San Francisco (CA), USA Y1 - 2016 UR - http://www.icmpc.org/icmpc14/files/ICMPC14_Proceedings.pdf SN - 1-876346-65-5 SP - 842 CY - San Francisco, UA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Schlotz, Wolff T1 - Patterns of situational cues and characteristics contributing to music listening in daily life: Towards a taxonomy of music listening situations T2 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Graz, Austria. Y1 - 2018 CY - Graz ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Looking back by looking into the future – The role of anticipation and trend effects in retrospective judgments of musical excitement T2 - Proceedings of the Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, New York City (NY), USA KW - Habilitation KW - Peak & End Y1 - 2014 CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Küppers, Thomas A1 - Skoda, Sabrina T1 - Psychologische Einflussfaktoren bei der Beurteilung des Innengeräusches von Elektrofahrzeugen T2 - 5. DEGA-Symposium "E-Mobilität & Akustik": 21. Oktober 2011, Stuttgart Y1 - 2011 CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Anglada-Tort, Manuel A1 - Keller, Steve A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Müllensiefen, Daniel T1 - Source-Effekte, ästhetische Bewertung und geschätzte Lizenzkosten im Kontext von Werbemusik T2 - 34. Abstract-Band zur Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM): 7.–9. September 2018, Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik der Justus-Liebig-Universität Y1 - 2018 CY - Gießen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Anglada-Tort, Manuel A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Müllensiefen, Daniel T1 - The Behavioral Economics of Music T2 - Proceedings of the Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences (PCBS), Prague, Czech Republic Y1 - 2019 UR - Anglada-Tort_2019.pdf CY - Prague ER - TY - CHAP A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Müllensiefen, Daniel A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan T1 - Gibt es raumakustische Hörexpertise? T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2020: 46. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9998 SP - 858 EP - 861 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin 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 - Büchel, Joachim A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Kollmeier, Birger T1 - Auralisierung von Verkehrsgeräuschen mithilfe von Max 6 T2 - "Fortschritte der Akustik" Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-939296-06-5 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Audiologie CY - Oldenburg; Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Egermann, Hauke A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Schönrock, Andreas A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Ginsborg, Jane ED - Lamont, Alexandra T1 - Development and Evaluation of a General Attribute Inventory for Music in Branding T2 - Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM): “The expressive interaction with music” (Ghent, Belgium) Y1 - 2017 UR - https://abcdj.eu/download/development-and-evaluation-of-a-general-attribute-inventory-for-music-in-branding/ CY - Ghent ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - The Impact of Music Preference on the Physiological Activation of the Human Body due to Music Reception T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik 2013, DAGA-AIA, Merano, Italy, CD-ROM Y1 - 2013 CY - Merano ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schlotz, Wolff T1 - Wer hört wann was? – Modellierung des Musikauswahlverhaltens unter Berücksichtigung von Person und Situation T2 - 33. Abstract-Band zur Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM) Y1 - 2017 UR - Greb, Steffens et al. 2017 - Wer hört wann was.pptx CY - Hamburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schlotz, Wolff T1 - Situational influences on music selection behavior in daily life: An experience sampling study T2 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Graz, Austria. Y1 - 2018 CY - San Francisco, UA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Egermann, Hauke A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schönrock, Andreas ED - Ginsborg, Jane ED - Lamont, Alexandra T1 - Predicting Musical Meaning in Audio Branding Scenarios T2 - Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM): “The expressive interaction with music” (Ghent, Belgium) Y1 - 2017 UR - https://www.escom2017.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Herzog-et-al.pdf SP - 75 EP - 79 CY - Ghent ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Irrgang, Melanie A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Egermann, Hauke T1 - “Shake it out” - How Motion Capture and Smartphone-Assessed Movement Can Predict Properties of Music T2 - 33. Abstract-Band zur Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM) Y1 - 2017 CY - Hamburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Irrgang, Melanie A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Egermann, Hauke T1 - Smartphone-Assessed Movement Predicts Music Properties T2 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Movement and Computing KW - Accelerometer KW - Music Information Retrieval KW - Smartphone Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-4503-6504-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3212721.3212852 VL - ICPS SP - 1 EP - 4 PB - ACM CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Karnop, Christoph A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Ginsborg, Jane ED - Lamont, Alexandra T1 - How do personality traits influence the effect of listening to sad music on induced musical emotions? T2 - Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM): “The expressive interaction with music” (Ghent, Belgium) Y1 - 2017 CY - Ghent ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kärst, Michaela A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Skoda, Sabrina T1 - Subjective evaluation and psychoacoustic analysis of the sound quality of low-noise asphalt on motorways in North-Rhine Westphalia T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik 2013,DAGA-AIA, Merano, Italy, CD-ROM Y1 - 2013 CY - Merano ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lavia, Lisa A1 - Witchel, Harry J. A1 - Aletta, Francesco A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Fiebig, André A1 - Kang, Jian A1 - Howes, Christine A1 - Healey, Patrick G. T. ED - Aletta, Francesco ED - Xiao, Jieling T1 - Non-Participant Observation Methods for Soundscape Design and Urban Planning T2 - Handbook of research on perception-driven approaches to urban assessment and design Y1 - 2018 SN - 9781522536383 SP - 73 EP - 99 PB - IGI Global Disseminator of Knowledge CY - Hershey, PA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Steele, Daniel A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - New Insights into Soundscape Evaluations Using the Experience Sampling Method T2 - Proceedings of Euronoise 2015, 31 May - 3 June, Maastricht Y1 - 2015 UR - https://www.conforg.fr/euronoise2015/proceedings/data/articles/000111.pdf SP - 1495 EP - 1500 CY - Maastricht ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Steele, Daniel A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Der Einfluss von Musik auf die Bewertung der Umwelt T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2016 (Aachen) Y1 - 2016 CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Steele, Daniel A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Music influences the perception of our acoustic and visual environment T2 - Proceedings of the 45th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2016 KW - Habilitation Y1 - 2016 SP - 7155 EP - 7160 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Egermann, Hauke A1 - Schönrock, Andreas A1 - Herzog, Martin T1 - Entwicklung eines Systems zur automatischen Musikempfehlung im Kontext des Audio Brandings T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2017 KW - Habilitation Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3939296126 SP - 198 EP - 201 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Schönrock, Andreas A1 - Egermann, Hauke T1 - ”Bridging the Semantic Gap” - Kann der semantische Ausdruck von Musik mithilfe von akustischen Signaleigenschaften vorhergesagt werden? T2 - Tagungsband - DAGA 2018 Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3939296133 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Schönrock, Andreas A1 - Peeters, Geoffroy A1 - Egermann, Hauke T1 - High-level chord features extracted from audio can predict perceived musical expression T2 - Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 18th ISMIR Conference 2017 Y1 - 2017 UR - Steffens, Lepa et al. 2017 - High-level chord features extracted.pdf CY - Suzhou, China ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schulte-Fortkamp, Brigitte A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Design of domestic soundscapes - Evaluation of household appliances in laboratory and reality T2 - Proceedings of Forum Acusticum 2011 Y1 - 2011 SN - 9788469415207 PB - Spanish Acoustical Society CY - Madrid ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schulte-Fortkamp, Brigitte A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg ED - Hanselka, Holger T1 - Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion als Einflussfaktor bei der Geräuschbewertung im akustischen Produkt-Design T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-939296-04-1 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg ED - Becker, Stefan T1 - Zusammenhang zwischen Bewertungen der Angenehmheit von einzelnen und miteinander kombinierten Geräuschen T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-939296-08-9 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 - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg A1 - Kameier, Jörg A1 - Heinze, Michael ED - Kollmeier, Birger T1 - Soundscaping im häuslichen Umfeld - Können Wassergeräusche Straßenverkehrslärm erträglicher machen? T2 - "Fortschritte der Akustik" Y1 - 2014 UR - 635346502250960053.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-06-5 SP - 513 EP - 514 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Audiologie CY - Oldenburg; Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Steele, Daniel A1 - Guastavino, Catherine ED - Becker, Stefan T1 - Die Experience Sampling Methode - Ein Werkzeug der Zukunft für die Soundscape-Forschung? T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik Y1 - 2015 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Steele, Daniel A1 - Guastavino, Catherine ED - Ginsborg, Jane ED - Lamont, Alexandra T1 - How does music affect soundscape evaluation? T2 - Proceedings of the Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) Y1 - 2015 CY - Manchester ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Luizard, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan ED - Lautenbach, Margriet ED - Witew, Ingo B. ED - de Vries, Diemer ED - Hornikx, Maarten T1 - Adaptation of singers to physical and virtual room acoustics T2 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Room Acoustics (ISRA) 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-90-9032895-9 PB - Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap CY - Heerde ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Petrenko, Johannes A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg ED - Kollmeier, Birger T1 - Vergleich von momentanen und retrospektiven Bewertungen natürlicher Soundscapes T2 - "Fortschritte der Akustik" Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-939296-06-5 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Audiologie CY - Oldenburg; Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schlotz, Wolff A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Smartphones as research tools in ambulatory assessment: Effects of own or loan devices on adherence, response attrition, usability, and reactivity T2 - Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA 2017), Luxembourg Y1 - 2017 CY - Luxembourg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg ED - Hanselka, Holger T1 - Einfluss von Fahrzeuginnengeräuschen auf die subjektive Bewertung von Beschleunigung T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-939296-04-1 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Multisensory interaction – A comparative study on driving sound evaluation in moving base and fixed base driving simulators T2 - Proceedings of the Driving Simulation Conference 2012, CD-ROM Y1 - 2012 CY - Paris ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Investigations on subconscious perception of product sounds T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik 2013 Y1 - 2013 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jochen_Steffens/publication/255170944_Investigations_on_subconscious_perception_of_product_sounds/links/00b495242ee39d6206000000/Investigations-on-subconscious-perception-of-product-sounds.pdf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Contribution of single sounds to sound quality assessments of multi-source environments T2 - Proceedings of Internoise (Melbourne) Y1 - 2014 CY - Melbourne ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg ED - Kollmeier, Birger T1 - Geräuschbewertungen in komplexen akustischen Umgebungen –Wie tragen einzelne Schallquellen zur subjektiven Bewertung der Lästigkeit einer Soundscape bei? T2 - "Fortschritte der Akustik" Y1 - 2014 UR - http://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2014/data/articles/000383.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-06-5 SP - 511 EP - 512 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Audiologie CY - Oldenburg; Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Road traffic noise annoyance in domestic environments can be reduced by water sounds T2 - Proceedings of Forum Acusticum 2014 (Krakow), CD-ROM Y1 - 2014 CY - Krakow ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Sound Quality evaluation of acoustical environments with multiple sources T2 - Proceedings of Euronoise 2015, 31 May - 3 June, Maastricht Y1 - 2015 CY - Maastricht 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 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schulte-Fortkamp, Brigitte A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Human-machine interaction as influencing factor of indoor soundscape evaluation JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4708899 VL - 131 IS - 4 PB - AIP ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schulte-Fortkamp, Brigitte A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Geräuschbewertung von Haushaltsgeräten im Labor und in der Realität [Sound evaluations of household appliances in laboratory and in real environments] JF - Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung Y1 - 2012 VL - 7 IS - 2 SP - 64 EP - 68 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg A1 - Heinze, Michael T1 - Können Wassergeräusche zur Minderung der Lästigkeit von Straßenverkehrslärm im Wohnumfeld [Can water sounds contribute to a reduced annoyance caused by road traffic noise in living environments?] beitragen? JF - Lärmbekämpfung KW - Habilitation Y1 - 2014 VL - 9 IS - 4 SP - 172 EP - 178 PB - Springer-VDI ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Steele, Daniel A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Measuring Momentary and Retrospective Soundscape Evaluations in Everyday Life by Means of the Experience Sampling Method JF - The Brunswik Society Newsletter Y1 - 2015 VL - 30 SP - 45 EP - 48 PB - The Brunswik society ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Steele, Daniel A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Situational and person-related factors influencing momentary and retrospective soundscape evaluations in day-to-day life JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America KW - Habilitation KW - HB KW - ICA2019 KW - JASA2019 Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4976627 VL - 141 IS - 3 SP - 1414 EP - 1425 PB - AIP 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 - Wagner, Stefan A1 - Hallmann, Dijana A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg A1 - Kameier, Jörg T1 - Geräuscharme Reifen - Händlerempfehlungen in der Praxis JF - Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung Y1 - 2013 VL - 8 IS - 3 SP - 118 EP - 121 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Elvers, Paul A1 - Fischinger, Timo A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Music listening as self-enhancement JF - Psychology of Music KW - Habilitation Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735617707354 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 19 PB - Sage ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Elvers, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - The Sound of Success: Investigating Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Motivational Music in Sports JF - Frontiers in psychology N2 - Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated. Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated. In this study we present a novel approach to the role of music in sports and exercise that focuses on the notion of musical self-enhancement (Elvers, 2016). We derived the following hypotheses from this framework: listening to motivational music will (i) enhance self-evaluative cognition, (ii) improve performance in a ball game, and (iii) evoke greater risk-taking behavior. To evaluate the hypotheses, we conducted a between-groups experiment (N = 150) testing the effectiveness of both an experimenter playlist and a participant-selected playlist in comparison to a no-music control condition. All participants performed a ball-throwing task developed by Decharms and Davé (1965), consisting of two parts: First, participants threw the ball from fixed distances into a funnel basket. During this task, performance was measured. In the second part, the participants themselves chose distances from the basket, which allowed their risk-taking behavior to be assessed. The results indicate that listening to motivational music led to greater risk taking but did not improve ball-throwing performance. This effect was more pronounced in male participants and among those who listened to their own playlists. Furthermore, self-selected music enhanced state self-esteem in participants who were performing well but not in those who were performing poorly. We also discuss further implications for the notion of musical self-enhancement. // Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated. In this study we present a novel approach to the role of music in sports and exercise that focuses on the notion of musical self-enhancement (Elvers, 2016). We derived the following hypotheses from this framework: listening to motivational music will (i) enhance self-evaluative cognition, (ii) improve performance in a ball game, and (iii) evoke greater risk-taking behavior. To evaluate the hypotheses, we conducted a between-groups experiment (N = 150) testing the effectiveness of both an experimenter playlist and a participant-selected playlist in comparison to a no-music control condition. All participants performed a ball-throwing task developed by Decharms and Davé (1965), consisting of two parts: First, participants threw the ball from fixed distances into a funnel basket. During this task, performance was measured. In the second part, the participants themselves chose distances from the basket, which allowed their risk-taking behavior to be assessed. The results indicate that listening to motivational music led to greater risk taking but did not improve ball-throwing performance. This effect was more pronounced in male participants and among those who listened to their own playlists. Furthermore, self-selected music enhanced state self-esteem in participants who were performing well but not in those who were performing poorly. We also discuss further implications for the notion of musical self-enhancement. KW - Motivation KW - motor coordination KW - Music KW - risk taking KW - self-enhancement KW - Self-esteem KW - sports Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02026 VL - 8 PB - Frontiers 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 - Anglada-Tort, Manuel A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Müllensiefen, Daniel T1 - Names and titles matter: The impact of linguistic fluency and the affect heuristic on aesthetic and value judgements of music JF - Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000172 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 277 EP - 292 PB - APA ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Schlotz, Wolff A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Personal and situational influences on the functions of music listening JF - Psychology of Music Y1 - 2018 VL - 46 IS - 6 SP - 763 EP - 794 PB - Sage ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schlotz, Wolff T1 - Understanding music-selection behavior via statistical learning JF - Music & Science KW - daily life KW - lasso regression KW - music listening behavior KW - music selection behavior KW - percentile-lasso KW - situational influences KW - Statistical learning Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204318755950 VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - Sage ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schlotz, Wolff T1 - Modeling Music-Selection Behavior in Everyday Life: A Multilevel Statistical Learning Approach and Mediation Analysis of Experience Sampling Data JF - Frontiers in psychology N2 - Music listening has become a highly individualized activity with smartphones and music streaming services providing listeners with absolute freedom to listen to any kind of music in any situation. Until now, little has been written about the processes underlying the selection of music in daily life. The present study aimed to disentangle some of the complex processes among the listener, situation, and functions of music listening involved in music selection. Utilizing the experience sampling method, data were collected from 119 participants using a smartphone application. For 10 consecutive days, participants received 14 prompts using stratified-random sampling throughout the day and reported on their music-listening behavior. Statistical learning procedures on multilevel regression models and multilevel structural equation modeling were used to determine the most important predictors and analyze mediation processes between person, situation, functions of listening, and music selection. Results revealed that the features of music selected in daily life were predominantly determined by situational characteristics, whereas consistent individual differences were of minor importance. Functions of music listening were found to act as a mediator between characteristics of the situation and music-selection behavior. We further observed several significant random effects, which indicated that individuals differed in how situational variables affected their music selection behavior. Our findings suggest a need to shift the focus of music-listening research from individual differences to situational influences, including potential person-situation interactions. KW - music-listening behavior KW - music-selection behavior KW - machine learning Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00390 N1 - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). VL - 10 PB - Frontiers ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Küppers, Thomas A1 - Biermann, Jan-Welm A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Structurized sound design process of electric vehicle interior sound JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3655178 VL - 130 IS - 4 PB - AIP Publishing ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schoenrock, Andreas A1 - Egermann, Hauke T1 - A computational model for predicting perceived musical expression in branding scenarios JF - Journal of New Music Research KW - ABC_DJ KW - Audio Branding Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2020.1778041 VL - 49 IS - 4 SP - 387 EP - 402 PB - Taylor & Francis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Egermann, Hauke T1 - Popular Music as Entertainment Communication: How Perceived Semantic Expression Explains Liking of Previously Unknown Music JF - Media and Communication Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-23602 VL - 8 IS - 3 SP - 191 EP - 204 PB - Cogitatio 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 - Rosenfeld, Ninett A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Effects of congruency of combined audiovisual stimuli in movie scenes on perceived emotions in the context of film reception JF - Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000242 VL - 29 IS - 4 SP - 200 EP - 208 PB - APA ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Einfluss von Beschleunigungskräften auf die Geräuschbewertung im Fahrzeuginnenraum JF - Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung Y1 - 2012 N1 - steffens VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 24 EP - 28 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Küppers, Thomas T1 - Auditory-proprioceptive interaction – How do acceleration forces influence the evaluation of driving sounds? JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Y1 - 2011 VL - 130 IS - 4 PB - AIP ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Urteilsbildung bei der subjektiven Bewertung des Innengeräusches von Elektrofahrzeugen JF - Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung Y1 - 2012 VL - 7 IS - 3 SP - 133 EP - 135 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Neue Einblicke in die Bewertung von Soundscapes mithilfe der Experience Sampling Methode [New Insights into Soundscape Evaluations Using the Experience Sampling Method] BT - Zeitschrift für Akustik, Schallschutz und Schwingungstechnik JF - Lärmbekämpfung Y1 - 2016 VL - 11 IS - 1 SP - 20 EP - 22 PB - Springer-VDI ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - The influence of film music on moral judgments of movie scenes and felt emotions JF - Psychology of Music KW - effects of music KW - Emotion KW - film music KW - moral foundations KW - moral judgments KW - soundtrack Y1 - 2020 VL - 48 SP - 3 EP - 17 PB - Sage ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Trend Effects of Momentary and Retrospective Soundscape Evaluations JF - Acta Acustica united with Acustica KW - Habilitation KW - HB KW - ICA2019 KW - JASA2019 Y1 - 2015 VL - 101 SP - 713 EP - 722 PB - Hirzel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Küppers, Thomas A1 - Skoda, Sabrina T1 - Psychological factors influencing the evaluation of electric vehicle interior noise JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America N2 - Increasing global awareness of the benefits of electromobility has brought about the need for new concepts in terms of the acoustic design of future vehicle generations. This includes both the creative design process and the development of suitable methods for the evaluation of target sounds by trial participants. The main difference between e-car sound surveys and those carried out on familiar sound categories is the potential consumer’s lack of experience with electric vehicles. Thus the consumer has no, or very unspecific, expectations in this regard. Several studies have consequently shown that many subjects have to construct their personal frame of reference for evaluation within the listening experiment. However, this is possibly at odds with experience-based expectations relating to the sounds of conventional combustion engines. The result is a conflict of objectives between the traditional and the modern, familiarity and strangeness and not least between driving freedom and ecological awareness. In this context, the authenticity of the sound and the subjective interpretability of the sound information also appear as moderator variables. Moreover, associations with other vehicle categories, for example streetcars, also influence the perceived sound quality. In the course of this contribution, these factors will be expounded and their influence on the evaluation of interior noise discussed. KW - HB Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3655176 VL - 130 IS - 4 PB - AIP 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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Petrenko, Johannes A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Comparison of momentary and retrospective soundscape evaluations JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4877121 VL - 135 IS - 2 PB - AIP Publishing 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 - 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 - INPR A1 - Ptasczynski, Lena Esther A1 - Blättermann, Patrick A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Sterzer, Philipp A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - The vibe of musical and social reward: Listening to beat-based music acts as a surrogate for socioemotional support during the Covid-19 pandemic T2 - Research Square N2 - Music listening is subjectively efficient in surrogating socioemotional needs during the Covid-19 pandemic, although underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We here challenge the generalizability of music-based coping by testing whether the insufficient satisfaction of distinct needs during the first lockdown entails enhanced listening to beat-based music with medium complexity (BBMMC) stimulating the cortico-striatal reward circuit and triggering oxytocinergic propagation. A Quasi-Bayesian mediation analysis on open-source data revealed that, across 11 European countries, more severe social distancing measures evoke a decline in experienced social provision (SP), in turn provoking BBMMC preferences. The latter was best predicted by the SP dimensions of social reward and attachment, suggesting that the partial overlap in neurophysiological processing at dopaminergic and oxytocinergic sites enables BBMMC to specifically alleviate these socioemotional needs, which has important implications for the development of mental health interventions. Finally, a stress-alleviating effect of BBMMC was found pointing towards HPA-activity modulation through music listening. KW - Psychoakustik KW - COVID-19-Pandemie KW - Bewältigung KW - Soziales Bedürfnis KW - Emotionales Bedürfnis KW - Musikpsychologie KW - Psychische Gesundheit Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2529116/v1 PB - Research Square ET - v1 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ptasczynski, Lena Esther A1 - Blättermann, Patrick A1 - Greg, Fabian A1 - Sterzer, Philipp A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Dataset related to the paper "The vibe of musical and social reward: Listening to beat-based music acts as a surrogate for socioemotional support during the Covid-19 pandemic" N2 - The set includes data related to the paper "The vibe of musical and social reward: Listening to beat-based music acts as a surrogate for socioemotional support during the Covid-19 pandemic" *************** Information *************** Dataset of the related text publication: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2529116/v1 Y1 - 2023 UR - https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2529116/v1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7669360 PB - Zenodo ET - v0.9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Anglada-Tort, Manuel T1 - The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists JF - Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000562 SN - 1931-3896 PB - American Psychological Association ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tarlao, Cynthia A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Investigating contextual influences on urban soundscape evaluations with structural equation modeling JF - Building and Environment KW - Soundscape KW - Extraversion KW - Social interaction KW - Structural equation modeling KW - Measurement invariance KW - ISAVE Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107490 SN - 0360-1323 N1 - Manuskriptversion ist als Open Access verfügbar (Open Access Grün): https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/articles/q811kq411?locale=en VL - 188 PB - Elsevier 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 - 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 - 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 - CHAP A1 - Hamm, Jill A1 - Hörner, Fernand A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Smartphone-Nutzung bei Live-Konzerten: Zwischen Erlebnis und Mediatisierung [Abstract] T2 - 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie Digitalisierung in der Musikpsychologie 6.–8. September 2024: Programm und Abstracts KW - FBSK_Webseite KW - Live-Auftritt KW - Konzert KW - Ästhetische Wahrnehmung KW - Smartphone Y1 - 2024 UR - https://web.archive.org/web/20241109190131/https://musikpsychologie.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024_reader.pdf SP - 52 EP - 53 CY - Freiburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wilczek, Tobias A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan ED - Lautenbach, Margriet ED - Witew, Ingo B. ED - de Vries, Diemer ED - Hornikx, Maarten T1 - Room acoustics, soundscapes and customer satisfaction in restaurants – a field study T2 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Room Acoustics (ISRA) 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-90-9032895-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18154/RWTH-CONV-240148 SP - 854 EP - 857 PB - Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap CY - Heerde ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Egermann, Hauke A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Schönrock, Andreas A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Automatische Vorhersage musikinduzierter Attributassoziationen im Kontext von Audio-Branding T2 - 33. Abstract-Band zur Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM) Y1 - 2017 UR - http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/121049/ CY - Hamburg 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 - 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 - CHAP A1 - Jakobs, Christoph A1 - Böldt, Sebastian A1 - Selbach, Dustin A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Extreme response style in listening tests T2 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics: integrating 4th EAA Euroregio 2019 : 9-13 September 2019 in Aachen, Germany Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-939296-15-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18154/RWTH-CONV-239966 CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Müller, Franz A1 - Schulz, Melanie A1 - Gibson, Samuel T1 - Cognitive load influences the evaluation of complex acoustical scenarios T2 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-939296-15-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18154/RWTH-CONV-239577 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Aachen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ruth, Nicolas A1 - Hantschel, Florian A1 - Loepthien, Tim A1 - Randall, Will M. A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - The relation between technology acceptance and music listening: An experience sampling study JF - Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie N2 - In the intersection of technology and music listening, understanding user experiences is paramount. This research employed the Experience Sampling Method via the smartphone app MuPsych to continuously capture real-time data on individuals' music listening behaviors and related emotional responses. Over a span of two weeks, participants from Germany were prompted to report on various factors as they engaged in music listening, resulting in a rich dataset. Results indicate that Spotify Premium was the most frequently used music application, with personal playlists being the preferred listening format. To unravel the intricacies of these responses and their determinants, linear mixed-effects model analysis was utilized. Among the critical findings, the Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use, two of the central constructs of the Technology Acceptance Model, emerged as significant predictors for the valence and enjoyment of the music experienced by users during the onset of music listening sessions. This highlights the imperative role of user-friendly interfaces in enhancing positive emotional states even before fully engaging with the music, underscoring the need for designers and developers of music-related apps to prioritise usability and useful functions. KW - digital music platforms KW - emotional valence KW - user experience KW - Technology Acceptance Model KW - experience sampling method KW - music listening KW - DOAJ KW - FBSK_Webseite Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-44662 SN - 2569-5665 VL - 32 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Erdmann, Matthias A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Untersuchung des Einflusses einer Musikvisualisierung auf die ästhetische Erfahrung des Publikums bei einer Live-Musikdarbietung in Mixed Reality [Abstract] T2 - 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie Digitalisierung in der Musikpsychologie 6.–8. September 2024: Programm und Abstracts KW - Ästhetische Wahrnehmung KW - Mixed Reality KW - Audiovisualisierung Y1 - 2024 UR - https://web.archive.org/web/20241109190131/https://musikpsychologie.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024_reader.pdf SP - 26 EP - 27 CY - Freiburg ER - TY - GEN A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Blättermann, Patrick A1 - Sattler, Maximilian A1 - Tang, Kevin T1 - How does a credible voice sound? [Project Repository] N2 - A project repository for the paper: Steffens, Blättermann, Sattler and Tang (2025, "How does a credible voice sound?"). It contains three components: the dataset, data analyses and the materials to elicit the speech data. KW - Sprechen KW - Glaubwürdigkeit KW - Akustik Y1 - 2025 UR - https://osf.io/mtcuh/ UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hs-duesseldorf/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5313 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MTCUH PB - Open Science Framework 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 - Himmelein, Hendrik A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Pörschmann, Christoph T1 - Influence of the room divergence effect on mental effort and noise perception in virtual environments [Vortrag] T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2024, 18. - 21. März 2024, Hannover N2 - Psychoakustische Forschung setzt vermehrt auf den Einsatz audiovisueller virtueller Realität, um multimodaler Bewertungseinflüsse Rechnung zu tragen und so die damit zusammenhängende ökologische Validität und Alltagsnähe erzielter Ergebnisse aus Laborstudien zu erhöhen. Studien lassen jedoch vermuten, dass multimodale kontextbezogene Einflussfaktoren wie Raumdivergenz (hier Unterschiede in virtuell präsentiertem Raum und realer Umgebung) und intrinsische Erwartungshaltung einen signifikanten Einfluss auf die durch virtuelle Umgebungen induzierte kognitive Beanspruchung und somit die Geräuschbewertung haben. Um zu untersuchen, inwieweit physische Präsenz in einem zur VR-Umgebung visuell divergenten realen Raum die kognitive Belastung und die Geräuschbewertung beeinflussen, wurde ein 2x2 Between-Subjects-Experiment in einer virtuellen Büroumgebung durchgeführt. Dazu wurde eine reale Umgebung in Unity nachgebildet und den Versuchsteilnehmer*innen über ein Head-Mounted Display (HMD) präsentiert. Je nach Kondition wurde der Versuch im visuell kongruenten oder divergenten physischen Raum durchgeführt. Dynamische, binaurale, über Kopfhörer präsentierte Bürogeräuschszenarien sollten dabei in allen Konditionen, hinsichtlich ihrer Lautheit und Unangenehmheit retrospektiv bewertet werden. Um zusätzlich die induzierte kognitive Beanspruchung genauer zu untersuchen, wurden Teilnehmer*innen aufgefordert, je Kondition entweder lediglich die Geräusche zu bewerten oder zusätzlich parallel den Stroop-Test durchzuführen. Erste Ergebnisse weisen auf eine signifikante Veränderung der Geräuschwahrnehmung im divergenten Raum hin. Implikationen für das experimentelle Design im Bereich der psychoakustischen Forschung werden diskutiert. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2024/files/upload/paper/23.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-22-5 SP - 1226 EP - 1229 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Erdmann, Matthias A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Advanced Soundscape Search: A Web Application for Interactive Exploration of ISO 12913 Datasets [Vortrag] T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2024, 18. - 21. März 2024, Hannover N2 - The development of the ISO 12913 has led to the creation of standardized methodologies for collecting and analyzing individual responses regarding acoustic environments in context, with the aim of enabling comparability, replicability, and the development of modelling algorithms in soundscape prediction and design tasks. The development of methods to represent and explore soundscape data has the potential to facilitate deeper insights into different datasets. Although it is unlikely that any single method will sufficiently capture all information in empirical studies, attempts are worthwhile to facilitate advancements in this realm. Therefore, we propose a web application that fosters an interactive exploration of datasets based on the ISO 12913. The application facilitates a comprehensive soundscape search using the 8 items of the standard, 8 features characterizing the soundscape (e.g., intensities of natural, human, and technical sound sources heard), and 10 distinct acoustic features. The search encompasses all possible combinations of these components, thus facilitating detailed exploration, offering an in-depth dataset overview, and enabling the comparison of different datasets. Further functionalities include text searching and the option to download, save, and load selected soundscapes, enhancing control and flexibility in the design of empirical studies and supporting urban planners in understanding various soundscape items. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2024/files/upload/paper/336.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-22-5 SP - 1417 EP - 1420 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Investigating real indoor soundscapes and their predictability for known and unknown subjects [Vortrag] T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2024, 18. - 21. März 2024, Hannover N2 - Understanding people's perception of everyday sound involves a complex interplay of various acoustic and non-acoustic factors. Our objective is to uncover important predictors for predicting real indoor soundscapes. To this end, we re-analyzed soundscape data recorded and evaluated by individuals in their homes, aiming for the utmost ecological validity. Given the intricate nature of sound perception and potential non-linear effects of acoustic and psychoacoustic predictors, we utilized machine-learning methods combined with hierarchical linear modeling to analyze 6375 soundscapes from 96 participants including acoustical, psychoacoustical, as well as situational und person-related predictors. Based on this analysis, we measured both the variability within and between subjects and obtained model fits for the prediction of both soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness. In order to discuss cases where predictions for known individuals or places are of interest, we employed (nested) cross-validation using different data-splitting methods. By doing so, our study sheds light on the generalizability of empirical findings when predicting soundscape evaluations for unknown or known subjects and thus supports a deeper understanding of everyday sound perception. KW - Vortrag Y1 - 2024 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dräger, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - von Berg, Markus T1 - How Does Lombard Speech Behave When The Background Noise Level Decreases? [Vortrag] T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2024, 18. - 21. März 2024, Hannover N2 - The Lombard Effect and its impact on human speech production, also known as ‘Lombard Speech’, have been investigated in numerous scientific studies. It is known that the intensity, but also the type of background noise can affect Lombard Speech. By contrast, the potential effect of a gradual reduction of the amplitude of the background noise has received little attention in previous research. To test for such an effect, we split 34 participants into couples and had them orally compare images. In the experimental condition, there was background noise (masker) whose amplitude was reduced from 70 to 50 dB(A) over a period of 100 seconds. Measures of speech production after this decay were compared to those of a reference condition in which the masker was constantly at 50 dB(A). We hypothesized that speech production due to prior exposure to a louder masker would show a stronger expression of Lombard Speech in the experimental compared to the reference condition. The results showed a significant difference regarding the level of the first formant F1 across conditions, but not regarding the overall dB(A) level. However, tendencies could be identified, which can serve as a basis for further investigations. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2024/files/upload/paper/135.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-22-5 SP - 1259 EP - 1262 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Himmelin, Hendrik A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Does Noise Sensitivity Decrease Auditory Task Performance and Person-Reliability? [Vortrag] T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2024, 18. - 21. März 2024, Hannover N2 - Noise sensitivity is a widely used, yet inconsistently defined, concept of being disturbed by environmental noise, independent of loudness levels. The origins of noise sensitivity are mostly unclear, but it has a higher prevalence among people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, and could be caused by increased neural excitation due to sound, resulting in increased cognitive load. In this case, noise sensitivity can be expected to decrease people’s mental performance in both auditory and non-auditory tasks. The former was tested in an experiment using a dual-task paradigm where participants had to solve a visual task in the presence of environmental sounds and afterwards had to recall which sounds they perceived and to evaluate the overall soundscape pleasantness and loudness. Preliminary results indicate that participants’ noise sensitivity is positively correlated with the experienced cognitive load as well as with loudness and unpleasantness judgments. Also, noise sensitivity was negatively associated with the performance in the recall task and the test-retest-reliability of their judgments. These findings support the idea that noise sensitivity is a consequence of difficulties in filtering irrelevant auditory information. Y1 - 2024 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - INPR A1 - Beckmann, Felix A1 - Denfeld, Alexander A1 - Koehn, Konrad A1 - Medebach, Ina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan T1 - Untersuchung der akustischen Qualität von Restaurants in Berlin und Düsseldorf N2 - Widrige akustische Bedingungen stellen einen der Hauptgründe für Beschwerden in Restaurants dar; insbesondere bei hörbeeinträchtigten Gästen kann eine schlechte Akustik den Besuch im Restaurant negativ beeinflussen oder gar frühzeitig enden lassen. Um Empfehlungen hinsichtlich optimaler Nachhallzeiten sowie beobachtete Zusammenhänge zwischen akustischen und nichtakustischen Faktoren bei Restaurantbesuchen zu überprüfen und im Hinblick auf verschiedene Restaurantkategorien zu erweitern, wurden in der vorliegenden Studie 20 Restaurants in Berlin und NRW mit insgesamt mehr als 600 Gästen untersucht. Hierbei wurden sowohl die Nachhallzeit als auch der Lautstärkepegel sowie die Anzahl der Gäste im Raum über die Zeit erfasst. Mittels elektronischem Fragebogen wurden Soundscape-Parameter, Besuchsmotive sowie die empfundene Sprachverständlichkeit und Restaurantqualität erhoben. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen einen großen Zusammenhang zwischen objektiven akustischen Größen und wahrgenommener akustischer Angenehmheit und Sprachverständlichkeit, welcher je nach Restaurantkategorie variiert. Die Daten zeigen weiterhin, dass sich die akustische Angenehmheit nicht vollständig durch die Sprachverständlichkeit im Restaurant aufklären lässt. Implikationen für das akustische Design von Restaurants im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ruhe und Lebendigkeit werden diskutiert. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2024/files/upload/paper/619.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-22-5 SP - 271 EP - 274 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Blättermann, Patrick A1 - Joschko, Marcel T1 - Exploring Album Dramaturgy: A Computational Music Analysis Across Pop Music History [Abstract] T2 - escom12 - The 12th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music: Book of Abstracts N2 - Background A musical album can be considered a central artwork of an artist, and the order of its songs can influence the way the album is perceived by the listener. That is, purposeful sequencing can create an emotional journey and suspense (Lehne & Kölsch, 2015), tell a story or reinforce a particular concept or theme in the artist's music. Aim(s) This study thus aimed on examining the evolution of albums over the course of pop music history and on unveiling patterns (i.e. clusters) and temporal shifts in emotion- related album dramaturgy dependent on the cultural context (in terms of genres) by utilizing advanced computational methods. Methods We first created a dataset by scraping titles and artists of the weekly Top 10 albums (n = 14.394) from the Billboard.com charts from 1957 to 2022. We further extracted the emotion-related audio descriptors ‘valence’ and ‘energy’ from the Spotify Developer API for each track of the corresponding album, resulting in two-dimensional time series. We then employed Deep Time Series Embedding Clustering (DeTSEC; lenco et al., 2020) which can handle multivariate time series of different length. Finally, k-means clustering was applied on the embeddings produced by the DeTSEC, resulting in a 12 cluster solution. Results To facilitate the interpretation of our solution, we determined the most representative album of a cluster using the smallest Euclidean distance to its centroid. Preliminary time series analysis of the resulting 12 albums confirm different emotional trajectories of the respective clusters, for instance showing decreasing valence and arousal values over time for “I am up” by Young Thug (Cluster 6) or highest valence and arousal values at the beginning and the end of the album for“The New Classic” by Iggy Azalea (Cluster 12). Furthermore, Chi² tests revealed significant associations between an album’s cluster membership and both its year of release and its genre. Discussion and Conclusion The study constitutes a first step in shedding light on the evolution of albums in modern popular music since its emergence. It further provides an insight into how temporal dramaturgies in terms of the emotion-related arrangement of songs of albums differ across genres and undergo cultural trends and temporal shifts. References Ienco D, & Interdonato R (2020). Deep Multivariate Time Series Embedding Clustering via Attentive-Gated Autoencoder. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 318–329 Lehne, M., & Koelsch, S. (2015). Toward a general psychological model of tension and suspense. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 79. KW - Popmusik KW - Dramaturgie Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.25364/602.2024.3 SP - 245 EP - 246 PB - Universität Graz CY - Graz ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Erdmann, Matthias A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Development and evaluation of a mixed reality music visualization for a live performance based on music information retrieval JF - Frontiers in Virtual Reality N2 - The present study explores the development and evaluation of a mixed reality music visualization for a live music performance. Real-time audio analysis and crossmodal correspondences were used as design guidelines for creating the visualization, which was presented through a head-mounted-display. To assess the impact of the music visualization on the audience’s aesthetic experience, a baseline visualization was designed, featuring the same visual elements but with random changes of color and movement. The audience’s aesthetic experience of the two conditions (i.e., listening to the same song with different visualizations) was assessed using the Aesthetic Emotions Scale (AESTHEMOS) questionnaire. Additionally, participants answered questions regarding the perceived audiovisual congruence of the stimuli and questionnaires about individual musicality and aesthetic receptivity. The results show that the visualization controlled by real-time audio analysis was associated with a slightly enhanced aesthetic experience of the audiovisual composition compared to the randomized visualization, thereby supporting similar findings reported in the literature. Furthermore, the tested personal characteristics of the participants did not significantly affect aesthetic experience. Significant correlations between these characteristics and the aesthetic experience were observed only when the ratings were averaged across conditions. An open interview provided deeper insights into the participants’ overall experiences of the live music performance. The results of the study offer insights into the development of real-time music visualization in mixed reality, examines how the specific audiovisual stimuli employed influence the aesthetic experience, and provides potential technical guidelines for creating new concert formats. KW - music visualization KW - mixed reality KW - real-time audio analysis KW - music information retrieval KW - aesthetic experience KW - concert formats KW - DFG Publikationskosten KW - HSD Publikationsfonds KW - Virtuelle Realität KW - Mixed Reality KW - Audiovisualisierung KW - Information Retrieval KW - Ästhetische Wahrnehmung KW - Musikwahrnehmung KW - Head-mounted Display Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-51110 SN - 2673-4192 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 - 6 PB - Frontiers ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Von Berg, Markus A1 - Schwörer, Paul A1 - Prinz, Lukas A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Astolfi, Arianna ED - Asdrubali, Francesco ED - Shtrepi, Louena T1 - Analysis of physical and perceptual properties of room impulse responses: development of an online tool T2 - Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023, September 11 - 15, 2023,Torino, Italy 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 RAQI 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. KW - Raumakustik KW - Konzertsaal KW - Webanwendung Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-47929 SN - 978-88-88942-67-4 SN - 2221-3767 SP - 1647 EP - 1654 PB - European Acoustics Association CY - Turin, Italy ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan ED - Astolfi, Arianna ED - Asdrubali, Francesco ED - Shtrepi, Louena T1 - Noise for dinner - Towards a comprehensive statistical model of the acoustical and overall quality of restaurants T2 - Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023, September 11 - 15, 2023,Torino, Italy N2 - Studies on noise in restaurants have shown a multitude of potential negative effects, for example related to mood, overall satisfaction, intended revisit, the ability to communicate and the actual behaviour in the room. In this paper, we investigated the complex interplay between room acoustics, soundscape evaluation, non-acoustical aspects of a restaurant visit and overall restaurant quality. Based on acoustical measurements and reports from 142 persons visiting 12 restaurants in Berlin, we propose a structural equation model including both acoustical and non- acoustical factors and yielding a good overall fit. The model, for instance, suggests that the A-weighted sound level negatively impacts the assessment of overall restaurant quality, while the effect of soundscape pleasantness on overall restaurant quality is mediated by the restaurant’s perceived atmosphere. Moreover, the reverberation time was found to be effective predominantly through its effect on sound strength, which leads patrons to increasingly raise their speech level to ensure intelligibility. These results thus emphasize the need to design actively the restaurant’s acoustical atmosphere beyond pure loudness reduction which involves a specific trade-off between comfort and liveliness, depending on the desired character of the place. KW - European Acoustics Association KW - Raumakustik KW - Restaurant Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-47908 SN - 978-88-88942-67-4 SN - 2221-3767 SP - 3325 EP - 3327 PB - European Acoustics Association CY - Turin, Italy ER - 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 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Joschko, Marcel A1 - Giang, Hien A1 - Huber, Florian T1 - Using machine learning to identify acoustic fingerprints of concert halls in classical audio recordings [Abstract] T2 - DAS|DAGA 2025: 51st Annual Meeting on Acoustics, March 17-20, 2025, Copenhagen KW - Datenanalyse KW - Maschinelles Lernen KW - Raumakustik KW - Konzertsaal Y1 - 2025 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAS-DAGA_2025/konferenz-1559.html?article=348 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Blättermann, Patrick A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Nonlinearities in generalized models based on different soundscape datasets [Abstract] T2 - DAS|DAGA 2025: 51st Annual Meeting on Acoustics, March 17-20, 2025, Copenhagen KW - Soundscape KW - Datenanalyse KW - Regressionsanalyse KW - Lineares Regressionsmodell KW - Nichtlineares Regressionsmodell KW - Verallgemeinertes Regressionsmodell Y1 - 2025 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAS-DAGA_2025/konferenz-2008.html?article=433 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Blättermann, Patrick A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Loadings of Acoustical Metrics on Soundscape Items and their relation to Soundscape Dimensions across different datasets [Abstract] T2 - DAS|DAGA 2025: 51st Annual Meeting on Acoustics, March 17-20, 2025, Copenhagen KW - Soundscape KW - Psychoakustik KW - Datenanalyse KW - Maschinelles Lernen Y1 - 2025 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAS-DAGA_2025/konferenz-2007.html?article=383 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - von Lauer-Münchhofen, Jakob A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Dau, Torsten ED - Epp, Bastian T1 - Applicability of Common Room Acoustic Parameters for Music Recording Spaces in Recording Studios T2 - Proceedings of DAS|DAGA 2025: 51st Annual Meeting on Acoustics March 17-20, 2025, Copenhagen KW - Raumakustik KW - Tonstudio KW - Musikaufnahme Y1 - 2025 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAS-DAGA_2025/files/upload/paper/578.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-23-2 SP - 1224 EP - 1227 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin 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 - 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 - CHAP A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Bitta, Joshua A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Investigation of auditory memory through loudness reproduction in the laboratory [Abstract] T2 - DAS|DAGA 2025: 51st Annual Meeting on Acoustics, March 17-20, 2025, Copenhagen KW - Gedächtnis KW - Lautwahrnehmung KW - Lautstärke Y1 - 2025 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAS-DAGA_2025/konferenz-1497.html?article=132 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hüsen, Jonas A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Virtual Listening Tests for Balanced Armature Headphone Drivers [Abstract] T2 - DAS|DAGA 2025: 51st Annual Meeting on Acoustics, March 17-20, 2025, Copenhagen KW - Kopfhörer KW - Treiberschaltung KW - Evaluation Y1 - 2025 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAS-DAGA_2025/konferenz-1498.html?article=351 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Dinneen, Jesse David A1 - Donner, Sascha A1 - Potthoff, Tom T1 - ‘Alexa, play metal’: exploring music selection and personal information management via voice assistants JF - Information Research an international electronic journal N2 - Introduction. Music streaming services have changed how music is played and perceived, but also how it is managed by individuals. Voice interfaces to such services are becoming increasingly common, for example through voice assistants on mobile and smart devices, and have the potential to further change personal music management by introducing new beneficial features and new challenges. Method. To explore the implications of voice assistants for personal music listening and management we surveyed 248 participants online and in a lab setting to investigate (a) in which situations people use voice assistants to play music, (b) how the situations compare to established activities common during non-voice assistant music listening, and (c) what kinds of commands they use. Analysis. We categorised 653 situations of voice assistant use, which reflect differences to non-voice assistant music listening, and established 11 command types, which mostly reflect finding or refinding activities but also indicate keeping and organisation activities. Results. Voice assistants have some benefits for music listening and personal music management, but also a notable lack of support for traditional personal information management activities, like browsing, that are common when managing music. Conclusion. Having characterised the use of voice assistants to play music, we consider their role in personal music management and make suggestions for improved design and future research. Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-44639 SN - 1368-1613 N1 - HTML-Version auf der Webseite verfügbar: https://informationr.net/infres/article/view/646/351 VL - 29 IS - 2 SP - 50 EP - 70 PB - University of Boras, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT ER - TY - JOUR A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Bitta, Joshua A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Reduced reproduction levels of outdoor soundscapes are deemed appropriate - even after real-world exposure JF - Acta Acustica N2 - Laboratory experiments in psychoacoustical and soundscape research indicate that participants perceive a reproduction sound level lowered by 8-10 dB as more plausible than the original level. This bias supposedly roots in an adaptation of perceptual loudness scaling to the laboratory environment, that is overall quieter than urban outdoor soundscapes. To gain further insights into the nature of such loudness bias, we conducted a listening experiment in both field and laboratory using a within-subjects design. Thirty-one participants visited a street and listened to the environmental sounds for one minute, while these sounds were also recorded using a dummy head. Thereafter, they listened to the recording in a quiet laboratory nearby and adjusted its level as they remembered it. About half of the sample did this immediately, the other half about 20 minutes after the recording. Results confirm a bias towards lower levels with a mean of about 8.9 dB, regardless of the time between the recording and the reproduction in the laboratory. Also, participants with higher musical abilities tended to select higher, more accurate levels, whereas noise-sensitive participants deemed lower levels appropriate. Results suggest that the hypothesized adaptation of perceptual scaling to the laboratory happens immediately and is affected by individual factors. KW - Psychoakustik KW - Lautwahrnehmung KW - Lautstärke Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17663267 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2025062 SN - 2681-4617 N1 - Acta Acustica, Forthcoming article, Accepted Manuscript PB - EDP Sciences ER - TY - GEN A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Bitta, Joshua T1 - Reproduction levels of outdoor soundscapes in the lab after in-situ exposure: participant responses and recording level envelopes N2 - Supplemental material for https://doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2025062 To investigate loudness biases in the lab, where outdoor sounds are perceived as being too loud if reproduced with physically accurate levels in the lab, a listening experiment was conducted, where thirty-one participants visited a street and listened to the environmental sounds for one minute. These sounds were also recorded using a dummy head. Afterwards, participants listened to the recording in a quiet laboratory and adjusted its level as they remembered it. About half of the sample did this immediately, the other half about 20 min after the recording, during which the performed another listening tests. Afterwards, previous experience with acoustics, musical sophistication and noise sensitivity were assessed. The results revealed a mean gain adjustment of 8.9 dB below the original. The data uploaded here comprises participants gain adjustment, the recording levels averaged other A) the entire recording and B) the first and last 7.5s or 15s, respecitvely and all questionnaire responses as well as aggregate scores for musical sophistication and noise sensitivity, as well as a binary categorization of the respondent into laymen and experienced, based on their previous experience with acoustics. For sociodemographic information, participants age, sex and educational degree are reported as well. Content - 00_Description: - Description of the data files - Includes a list of explanation of the columns names in "data_questionnaires_aggregateLevels.csv - data_questionnaires_aggregateLevels.csv - Participants' adjusted recordings levels - Several level and loudness aggregates of each participant's recording that were analyzed in the paper - Participants' responses to the administered questionnaires - level_envelopes.zip - Archive with 31 CSV files containing level envelopes of each participant's recording. - A-weighted and unweighted level envelope for the dummy head's left and right ear - One-minute recordings with a temporal resolution of 125ms KW - Psychoakustik KW - Lautwahrnehmung KW - Lautstärke Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2025062 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17663267 PB - Zenodo ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Himmelein, Hendrik A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Pörschmann, Christoph A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Influence of mental effort on sound evaluations in virtual and real experimental environments JF - Frontiers in Virtual Reality N2 - Psychoacoustic research increasingly relies on virtual reality (VR) to account for the complexity of acoustic scenarios and enhance the ecological validity of laboratory findings. However, recent studies suggest that virtual environments can alter mental effort compared to real-world settings, for example, through increased perceptual complexity which in turn may affect auditory perception.This could bias experimental outcomes and compromise the ecological validity of studies conducted in VR. To investigate this, a 2 × 2 between-subjects experiment was conducted to assess whether VR environments increase mental effort and thereby influence auditory perception. A real office environment was visually reconstructed in Unity and presented to the participants via a head-mounted display (HMD) and compared to its real counterpart. Participants in both environments were asked to retrospectively rate the loudness and unpleasantness of dynamically rendered binaural office noise scenarios presented via headphones and to report perceived sound sources. Moreover, participants were divided into two groups to induce different levels of mental effort. One group was asked to listen only to the sounds, while the other performed the Stroop Color-Word interference test in parallel. The results show no significant difference in the overall induced mental effort between environment conditions. Furthermore, performing the Stroop test had an effect on loudness and unpleasantness that was mediated by subjective effort. The results also suggest that auditory jugment depend primarily on individual sound properties, regardless of the visual environment. KW - Psychoakustik KW - Virtuelle Realität KW - Lautwahrnehmung KW - Head-mounted Display Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-57985 SN - 2673-4192 VL - 6 PB - Frontiers Media SA 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 - 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 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Blättermann, Patrick A1 - Sattler, Maximilian A1 - Tang, Kevin T1 - How does a credible voice sound? JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America N2 - Credibility is a crucial social factor that influences people's perception and decision-making. This study explores the acoustic attributes that define credible speech compared to neutral and ironic speech. A custom-built German corpus was developed, containing speech samples recorded from amateurs to enhance ecological validity. The study extracted a broad set of audio features from these samples, employing recursive feature elimination to identify the most influential attributes. These were then analyzed using a machine-learning-supported multinomial logistic regression model. The results indicated significant differences in the acoustic features associated with credible speech compared to neutral and ironic speech. Key findings include the role of a higher energy level (1st mel-frequency cepstral coefficient) in credible compared to neutral and ironic speech and a higher speaking rate in both credible and ironic compared to neutral speech. Also, irony is characterized by more high-frequency content (mean spectral centroid) compared to credible or neutral speech. Gender differences in spoken irony involve a greater influence of speaking rate in women's speech, while high pitch plays a more significant role in men's speech. This research thus contributes to the understanding of how credibility is conveyed through speech and offers insights for applications in communication, media, and artificial intelligence. The study also highlights the methodological advancements made by incorporating a diverse range of acoustic features and employing a robust machine-learning framework. KW - Sprechen KW - Glaubwürdigkeit KW - Akustik Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-53133 SN - 1520-8524 VL - 157 IS - 5 SP - 3780 EP - 3792 PB - Acoustical Society of America ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hüsen, Jonsa A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Virtual Listening Tests for Balanced Armature Headphone Drivers T2 - AES International Conference on Headphone Technology 2025 August 27–29, Espoo, Finland Y1 - 2025 UR - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22929 IS - 3 PB - Audio Engineering Society ER -