The influence of background speech on a writing task in an open-plan study environment
| Autor: | Jikke Reinten, Ella Braat-Eggen, Maarten Hornikx, AG Armin Kohlrausch |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Building Acoustics, Building Performance, Building Lighting, Human Technology Interaction, EAISI Foundational |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Environmental Engineering
Disturbance (geology) Writing task Computer science Open-plan study environments Speech recognition Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Open plan Task (project management) Reverberation time 021108 energy Background speech Sound (geography) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Civil and Structural Engineering geography geography.geographical_feature_category Noise pollution Building and Construction Occupancy QUIET Noise sensitivity Noise disturbance |
| Zdroj: | Building and Environment, 169:106586. Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0360-1323 |
| Popis: | Writing is an important activity in open-plan study environments in higher education. Writing is also a task during which students have indicated to be very disturbed by background speech. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of realistic sound scenarios in an open-plan study environment on the performance and disturbance of participants working on a writing task, taking into account noise sensitivity as a personal factor. In an experimental setting, participants had to perform a writing task while being exposed to different simulated sound scenarios. These sound scenarios were composed of background speech produced by three or fourteen talkers in a very absorbing (0.6 s) or very reverberant (2.4 s) open-plan study environment. A quiet sound scenario was added as a reference. Results show that the writing performance of participants decreased significantly in the absorbing environment with only three talkers. Although the quiet reference environment was rated as the least disturbing, the performance in the quiet reference condition was not significantly better compared to the other acoustic conditions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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