Kurukose Cal, Hatice Kubra;
Kang, Jian;
Aletta, Francesco;
(2023)
An investigation on school staff's perception on sounds and ideas about school soundscape design.
In:
Forum Acusticum 2023: 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association.
(pp. pp. 1-8).
European Acoustical Association: Torino, Italy.
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Abstract
The current focus of soundscape studies is mainly on urban or outdoor environments; however, there is an increasing interest in the soundscape of indoor spaces. Schools can also benefit from an indoor soundscape approach. The research aim to investigate school staff's perception and ratings on environmental sounds, and how these can support acoustic comfort. The structured interview data collection method was chosen to identify school staff perceptions and preferences: this paper reports on the results with 20 participants, 10 in the UK and 10 in Turkiye. The perception of school staff in the UK and Turkiye were collated for cultural differences. Preliminary findings suggest that school staff do not always want a quiet environment, and even raised a wish to hear music and natural sounds depending on activities and places. This study suggests that considering only negative sounds is not enough to provide acoustic quality in schools. School staff from the UK and Turkiye were eager for calming and relaxing sounds. School staff from Turkiye stated that they were uncomfortable with quietness more often. Bird singing, rain and water stream were the most wanted sounds in both countries. Some differences have been found between participants from Turkiye and the UK. These differences were over the identification and description of sound sources. While car horns were most annoyed sounds in Turkiye, traffic sounds were most annoyed sound in the UK.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | An investigation on school staff's perception on sounds and ideas about school soundscape design |
| Event: | Forum Acusticum 2023:10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association |
| Location: | Torino |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.fa2023.org/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 First author et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Indoor soundscape, school soundscape, school acoustic, teachers’ perception |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10182810 |
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