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VTA160 Human response to sound and vibration lp3 VT24 (7.5 hp)

pm_HRSV.pdf

Course is offered by the department of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Learning objectives and syllabus

Learning objectives:

• Use objective methods for the estimation of human responses to sound and vibration.

• Design, carry through, and analyze experiments using humans as measurement devices.

• Be aware of the ethical considerations needed when using humans as measurement devices.

• Understand and use fundamental psychoacoustic variables (including loudness, pitch, timbre, sharpness, roughness, fluctuation strength, tonality, critical bandwidth) in measurements.

• Understand and describe the physiological and psychological responses to sounds and vibrations, including annoyance, the anatomy of the ear, multimodal perceptions and health aspects.

• Understand various sound design aspects and the concepts of sound quality and sound character

• Design tools and apply them for sound quality assessment

• Knowledge in different approaches to understand the complex relationship between humans and sounds and vibration.

Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen.

Study plan

 

Lecture Slides

HRSV2024 Part 1 - Introduction to Psychoacoustics.pdf

HRSV2024 Part 1 - Introduction to Psychoacoustics - Sounds.zip

HRSV2024 Part 2- Physiology of Human Hearing and Loudness.pdf

HRSV2024 Part 2 - Physiology of Human Hearing and Loudness - Sounds.zip

HRSV2024 Part 3- Sharpness and Tonality.pdf

HRSV2024 Part 3 - Sharpness and Tonality - Sounds.zip

HRSV2024 Part 4 - Modulation Perception and Pattern Recognition.pdf

HRSV2024 Part 4 - Modulation Perception and Pattern Recognition - Sounds.zip

HRSV2024 Part 5 - Jury Testing.pdf

HRSV2024 Part 5 - Jury Testing - Sounds.zip

HRSV2024 Part 6 - Product Sound Quality and Metric Development.pdf

HRSV2024 Part 6 - Product Sound Quality and Metric Development - Sounds.zip

HRSV2024 Part 7 - Environmental Noise and Soundscapes.pdf

HRSV2024 Part 7 - Environmental Noise and Soundscapes - Sounds.zip

HRSV2024 Part 8 - Sound Quality Metrics Using Psychoacoustic Standards based on The Sottek Hearing Model.pdf

Course Software

We provide laptops with the required course software in the TA lecture hall.

If you would like to install the software on your own (Windows!) computer, you can do that using these installers:

HRSV2024Tools.zip

Additional course material

Books:

• H. Fastl, E. Zwicker: Psychoacoustics. Facts and Models, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. (Available online via Chalmers Library)
• B. C. J. Moore: An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, Academic Press, 1997.

The books by Moore, and Zwicker & Fastl will be available for lending by the Division for use during the course. You are not allowed to print copyrighted material.