Soundscape Research in VR
54º Congreso Español de Acústica — Tecniacústica 2023
Abstract
The Soundscape approach created a very important progress in environmental noise assessment. The data obtained are much more significant than pure measurement data, since the human response to the environment is taken into consideration in several ways, including the multimodal, behavioural, cultural and seasonal context. If these complex scenarios are simulated in Virtual Reality (VR), there are opportunities to study the human responses in a reproducible way but there are severe challenges as concerns the accuracy of the visualization and auralization and the ecological validity of transferring the perceptual impression to the laboratory situation.