Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Influence of Soundscapes on Perception of Safety and Social Presence in an Open Public Space

Influence of Soundscapes on Perception of Safety and Social Presence in an Open Public Space

Arianna Astolfi, Paola Orecchia, Elena Bo, Louena Shtrepi, Cristina Calleri, Francesco Aletta
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781522536376|ISBN10: 152253637X|EISBN13: 9781522536383
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3637-6.ch006
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Astolfi, Arianna, et al. "Influence of Soundscapes on Perception of Safety and Social Presence in an Open Public Space." Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design, edited by Francesco Aletta and Jieling Xiao, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 126-149. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3637-6.ch006

APA

Astolfi, A., Orecchia, P., Bo, E., Shtrepi, L., Calleri, C., & Aletta, F. (2018). Influence of Soundscapes on Perception of Safety and Social Presence in an Open Public Space. In F. Aletta & J. Xiao (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design (pp. 126-149). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3637-6.ch006

Chicago

Astolfi, Arianna, et al. "Influence of Soundscapes on Perception of Safety and Social Presence in an Open Public Space." In Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design, edited by Francesco Aletta and Jieling Xiao, 126-149. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3637-6.ch006

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

This chapter addresses the effect of different soundscapes on the perception of safety and the feeling of social presence in an urban open space. The investigation was conducted through the virtual reproduction of different scenarios submitted to participants' evaluation through a laboratory test. A subjective assessment test with a three-level factorial design was implemented in which participants had to rate 18 different audio-visual scenarios with respect to their safety and social presence perception. The scenarios presented three different views of a pedestrian passage in which different acoustic conditions were tested, namely the presence of traffic noise barrier and of classical or jazz music background. The results of statistical analyses showed that background music improved the perception of safety and the social presence feeling. In detail, jazz music was the stimulus that reported higher scores in these evaluations, with respect to classical music. Finally, music influence on social presence resulted to be significantly higher for female participants than for male ones.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.