A careful evaluation of listening tests designed to measure audio quality shows that they are
vulnerable to systematic errors, which include biases due to affective judgments, response …

Over the past two decades there have been many major new developments in the field of
urban sound environment. Jian Kang introduces and examines these key developments …

Aerodynamic noise resulting from a vehicle moving through air at high speeds is one of the
most important sources of noise perceived by the passengers. It consists of a stationary …

Product sound design has received much attention in recent years. This has created a need
to develop and validate tools for developing product sound specifications. Elicitation of …

Hedonic judgments are prone to many non-acoustical biases. Since audio quality evaluation
involves, to some degree, hedonic judgments, the scores obtained from typical audio quality …

Despite the increasingly stringent emissions legislation, users and owners of commercial
diesel vehicles are continually demanding that each new engine generation is more …

When people evaluate the engine NVH, they are not only mentioning whether the engine is
loud or not, they say that is noisy or quiet. The difference between these two comments is the …

Die vorliegende Untersuchung hat zum Ziel, die Anzahl der psychologisch bedeutsamen
Urteilsdimensionen von Präferenz-bzw. Ähnlichkeitsurteilen ein und derselben Menge von …