The traditional active noise control design aims to attenuate the energy of residual noise,
which is indiscriminative in the frequency domain. However, it is necessary to retain residual …

As a product market becomes more competitive, consumers become more discriminating in
the way in which they differentiate between engineered products. The consumer often …

Sound quality is among the main factors that influence customers' preference for choosing
good automobile products. It all started more than 10 years ago and grows up so fast due to …

The noise generated by vacuum cleaners is one of the dominant noise sources among
household appliances with its suction unit as the key element of noise generation. The …

This investigation into the effects of indoor soundscapes on learning efficiency during home-
based online classes amidst the COVID-19 pandemic leveraged a questionnaire survey to …

How can quality of product sounds be measured? This question was investigated on basis
of shaver, vacuum cleaner and spray sounds, which were matched in loudness according to …

Abstract The European Union energy label, which provides information on the energy
consumption of household appliances, has proven its reliability for the customers in recent …

Recently, listener tests of certain products have shown that the sense of pleasantness is
significant in sound quality evaluation. For instance, pleasantness was an attribute …

Vacuum cleaners are one of the most widely used household appliances associated with
unpleasant noises. Previous studies have indicated the severity of loud vacuum cleaner …

After a study looking at the extent and the scope of sound quality testing in the UK industry, it
was found that relatively little formal sound quality testing was being carried out in the UK …