Course syllabus
Course-PM
VTA160 Human response to sound and vibration lp3 VT25 (7.5 hp)
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.
Lecture Slides
01_General Introduction to Psychoacoustics.pdf
02_Introduction to Psychoacoustics.pdf
Lecture Sounds
02_Introduction to Psychoacoustics - Introduction to Psychoacoustics - Sounds.zip
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:
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.
Course summary:
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