DAGA 2010 - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik eV

Programm DAGA 2010 45
Mo. 15:45 Gauß B 501 Vorkolloquium Soundscape
Standardization in Soundscape Research - Current and Future Perspectives
Ö. Axelsson
Stockholm University, Department of Psychology
In 2008 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) decided
to put together a new expert working group ISO/TC 43/SC 1/WG 54 named
”Perceptual assessment of soundscape quality”. The scope of the
working group is to provide minimum specifications for soundscape studies,
by proposing (a) new international standard(s) on how to measure
the perceived quality of soundscapes. This work is chiefly motivated by
a need to harmonise methods in soundscape research internationally
in order to improve the comparability of research results across countries
and over time. The standard(s) developed by this working group will
primarily be intended for researchers assessing perceived soundscape
quality and for public users evaluating soundscape quality in different
areas. The standard(s) will include definitions, methods, measurements
and reporting requirements. Examples of applications may include visitor
questionnaire studies in outdoor areas intended for recreation (e.g.,
city parks or open green spaces), or resident questionnaire studies in
residential areas, including areas with designated places of high sound
quality. In the ISO terminology this is a preliminary working item, which
means that there are no time restrictions until the group has put forward
its first formal proposal. The working group plan to do this in 2011.
Mo. 16:10 Gauß B 501 Vorkolloquium Soundscape
The Restoration Perspective in Soundscape Research
T. Hartig
Uppsala University, Inst. Housing and Urban Research
The restoration perspective complements the stress and coping perspectives
as a source of theoretical and practical insights into relations
among sociophysical environments, effective functioning, and health.
The stress perspective focuses on conditions in the environment
that can undermine adaptation; it guides a search for ways to eliminate
or mitigate such stressful conditions. The coping perspective focuses
on the availability of resources with which a person can meet adaptational
demands; it guides a search for ways to enhance the availability
of resources. In contrast to these other perspectives on adaptation,
the restoration perspective assumes the inevitability of some restoration
needs, and it guides the provision and protection of environments that
can support restoration. In this presentation, I will outline the restoration
perspective and discuss some ways in which it has or might be applied
in soundscape research. In doing this, I will discuss how some aspects
of the soundscape might work to promote restoration, while others might
work to hinder restoration. In this latter regard, I wish to distinguish noise
as a constraint on restoration from noise as an environmental stressor.