TY - BOOK ID - 118269299 TI - Virtual Building Acoustics : Auralization with Contextual and Interactive Features PY - 2022 SN - 383255601X PB - Berlin, Germany : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, DB - UniCat KW - Hearing. KW - Psychoacoustics KW - Soundproofing KW - Noise KW - Virtual reality. KW - Virtual reality in architecture. KW - Sound. KW - Psychological aspects. KW - virtual building acoustics KW - psychoacoustic experiments KW - acoustics KW - Acoustics. KW - Acoustics KW - Continuum mechanics KW - Mathematical physics KW - Physics KW - Pneumatics KW - Radiation KW - Wave-motion, Theory of KW - Environments, Virtual KW - Virtual environments KW - Virtual worlds KW - Computer simulation KW - Reality KW - Architecture KW - Insulation (Sound) KW - Sound KW - Sound insulation KW - Absorption of sound KW - Acoustical engineering KW - Noise control KW - Psychophysics KW - Audition (Physiology) KW - Physiological acoustics KW - Bioacoustics KW - Senses and sensation KW - Audiology KW - Auditory pathways KW - Deafness KW - Ear KW - Listening KW - Psychology KW - Insulation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118269299 AB - Modern societies have concerns about growing annoyance due to noise in private dwellings and in commercial worksites. People are exposed to the noise from neighbours, adjacent offices and road traffic which causes disturbance in sleep, physical or mental work impairments. Though ISO (International Standards Organization) provides sound insulation guidelines to protect citizens from the noise exposures, these guidelines do not provide an optimal acoustic satisfaction especially for specific sounds, for example a conversation varying in intelligibility. This work addresses the challenges in traditional sound insulation models, filters and auralization techniques, and establishes an interface between psychoacoustic research and building acoustics in audio-visual VR environments. Improvements are made in sound insulation prediction methods, filters construction and rendering techniques for sound insulation auralization. The virtual building acoustic framework (VBA) is developed toward real-time interactive audio-visual technology, to be able to introduce more realism and, hence, contextual features into psychoacoustic experiments. Listening experiments close to real-life situations are carried which showed that the VBA can be used as an alternate to design test paradigms which help to better analyse and interpret the noise impacts in built-up environments situations depending on the actual activities. ER -