Empowering people on the assessment of the acoustic comfort of urban places: CITI-SENSE project

Itziar Aspuru; Igone García; Karmele Herranz-Pascual; Alvaro Santander

Empowering people on the assessment of the acoustic comfort of urban places: CITI-SENSE project

Itziar Aspuru, Igone García, Karmele Herranz-Pascual, Alvaro Santander

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Abstract

Tecnalia has applied the concept of citizen observatories to empower citizens in the assessment of acoustic comfort in public places. Tools and observation protocols are defined to allow citizens collecting simultaneous objective and subjective data of the sound environment in places of their city known by them. Previous works stated that criteria to define quiet areas should consider not only noise levels, but subjective data also, giving importance to the end-users perception of the area. This work was undertaken as part of the CITI-SENSE project and the solution was tested in a field demonstration, where 53 people were engaged to provide 137 observations in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, using environmental sensors connected to a smartphone.

Original language	English
Pages	3953-3962
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 21 Aug 2016
Event	45th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering: Towards a Quieter Future, INTER-NOISE 2016 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 21 Aug 2016 → 24 Aug 2016

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Conference	45th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering: Towards a Quieter Future, INTER-NOISE 2016
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	21/08/16 → 24/08/16

Keywords

Acoustic comfort
APP
Empowerment initiative
Soundscape

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