| Popis: |
Since music listening with headphones or earphones disturbs auditory information necessary for safety, pedestrians, for example, have a high risk of causing a severe accident. When listening to music and walking on the road with earphones or headphones, a person may fail to notice approaching vehicles from behind. It is because of the masking by the music played through headphones, which makes it difficult to perceive the sound of approaching vehicles. To improve such situations, the authors aim to actualize a listening environment where pedestrians enjoy listening to music with headphones with perceiving their ambient sounds. As a process, this report deals with a possible methodology to preserve auditory information for safety using sound localization of music. Authors investigate the effect of the music localization played through headphones on the perceptibility of the vehicle's approaching sound. The approaching sound of several types of cars are presented to listeners, who are asked to answer when the cars arrive at their places. The timing when the car reach is measured. The author will demonstrate the result of the investigation at the conference. |
