promote international cooperation within different specific fields of acoustics, provide assistance in organizing EAA events, suggest special issues for Acta Acustica or Acoustics in Practice, initiate studies and prepare documents such as strategies, policy statements, state-of-the-art assessments, reports, etc, within its defined technical field.

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Human Response to Sound and Vibration

Chalmers University of Technology

Docent
  • Roland Sottek
Type
Lecture
Term
early spring semester
Subject type
Elective
Study path
MSc Programme Sound and Vibration
Specialisation/branch
Keywords
Fundamentals of human reaction to sound & vibration. The concepts of damage, annoyance, disturbance, tolerance and comfort. Monaural and binaural listening. Objective methods for the estimation of human response to sound & vibration. Differences between subjective and objective measures of sound & vibration in estimating human reaction. Positive and negative aspects of of sound & vibration. Sound & vibration as information carriers. Concept of sound quality. Objective measures of sound quality.
Total ECTS credit
7.5
Examination
homework tasks
Language
Webpage
http://www.ta.chalmers.se/education/course-descriptions/human-response-to-sound-and-vibration/
Last modified
May 2, 2022, 10:15 p.m.

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