The occlusion effect occurs when the ear is completely or partially occluded, for example when wearing earphones or hearing aids. Sound transmitted through the body is amplified at lower frequencies, […]
The complexity of populated real-life environments is hard to recreate in laboratory listening experiments. Using Virtual Reality (VR), this complexity can be simulated with close-to-real-life environments, while maintaining high controllability […]
High-channel-count spatial audio systems, such as Wave Field Synthesis (WFS), often rely on specialized hardware to drive the speakers. This significantly increases the costs. Furthermore, commercial audio equipment can be […]
Traffic noise pollution is responsible for major health issues. To predict the human traffic noise perception of urban soundscapes during the planning phase, a validated auralization tool is needed. The […]
Humans often miss otherwise obvious unexpected events when they are focused on a demanding task. This can occur in the auditory as well as visual domain – inattentional deafness and […]
Geometrical acoustics has been widely used to simulate sound propagation in various environments because it has a lower computational cost than wave-based numerical simulations. An acoustic radiosity model (Sparrowpy) with […]
The primary objective of this thesis was to model primary school classroom noises in acoustic virtual reality of the three activity-based acoustic situations (ABAS): silent work, group work, and classroom […]
The occlusion effect (OE) describes the increased perception of body internal sound such as one’s own voice when the ear canal is blocked. This phenomenon often leads to discomfort with […]
