Acoustic scene classification (ASC) has gained significant interest recently due to its diverse
applications. Various audio signal processing and machine learning methods have been …

This chapter reviews theories and empirical research on the ways in which people
spontaneously and effortlessly categorize sounds into meaningful categories to make sense …

The aim of this study is to characterize urban spaces, which combine landscape, acoustics,
and lighting, and to investigate people's perceptions of urban soundscapes through …

Although the literature on customer experience within retail environments spontaneously
invokes the sensuous, affective and emotional aspects of experience, the body–which is the …

In this article we report on listener categorization of meaningful environmental sounds. A
starting point for this study was the phenomenological taxonomy proposed by Gaver …

If there is one thing about timbre that researchers in psychoacoustics and music psychology
agree on, it is the claim that it is a poorly understood auditory attribute. One facet of this …

Timbre dissimilarity of orchestral sounds is well-known to be multidimensional, with attack
time and spectral centroid representing its two most robust acoustical correlates. The …

Because humans lack a sensory vocabulary for auditory experiences, timbral qualities of
sounds are often conceptualized and communicated through readily available sensory …

Describing unidentified sounds with words is a frustrating task and vocally imitating them is
often a convenient way to address the issue. This article reports on a study that compared …

Mutations in late 20th-century sound design have transformed it from an empirical know-how
into a full-fledged research field, with applications in the domain of everyday sound …