Soundscape-Sensing in Social Networks

Noise Mapping

Smart cities are required to engage with local communities by promoting a user-centred approach to deal with urban life issues and ultimately enhance people’s quality of life. Soundscape promotes a similar approach, based on individuals’ perception of acoustic environments. This paper aims to establish a model to implement soundscape maps for the monitoring and management of the acoustic environment and to demonstrate its feasibility. The final objective of the model is to generate visual maps related to perceptual attributes (e.g. ‘calm’, ‘pleasant’), starting from audio recordings of everyday acoustic environments. The proposed model relies on three main stages: (1) sound sources recognition and profiling, (2) prediction of the soundscape’s perceptual attributes and (3) implementation of soundscape maps. This research particularly explores the two latter phases, for which a set of sub-processes and methods is proposed and discussed. An accuracy analysiswas performed with satisfact...

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023

This paper describes the development of an interactive tool which allows playing different soundscapes by mixing diverse environmental sounds on demand. This tool is titled Our Sound Space (OSS) and has been developed as part of an ongoing project where we test methods and tools for the participation of young people in spatial planning. As such OSS is meant to offer new opportunities to engage youth in talks about planning, placemaking and more sustainable living environments. In this paper, we describe an implementation of OSS that we are using as an interactive soundscape installation sited in a public place daily visited by people from a diversity of entities (e.g. university, a gymnasium, a restaurant, start-ups). The OSS installation is designed to allow simultaneous activation of several prerecorded sounds broadcast through four loudspeakers. The installation is interactive, meaning that it can be activated and operated by anyone via smartphones and is designed to allow interaction among multiple people at the same time and space.

Eduvest - Journal Of Universal Studies, 2022

Social networks or social media is structure social that builds from node to node which generally is individual or organization. That will bundle with one or more type relation specific like score, vision, idea, friends and posterity and others. Analysis social network look at social connection like node or tie This time is so many social networks that already operation but all of them still using based on text for send message, comment, and email so it will the problem that mostly happen by smart phone user is they have difficulties for typing and for PC user occasionally having mistake because miss understanding meaning from sender.

2013

This paper discusses an exploration using a concurrent auditory displays for awareness and lightweight interactions. The design of this type of system and comparisons to existing awareness tools are discussed. The auditory display system in this exploration was designed to explore, using concurrent auditory icons, the issue of group awareness. The sounds used in this auditory display where selected based on their identification derived from individual’s personal constructs using the Repertory Grid Technique. The system was designed to create a ‘soundscape’ of concurrent ecological sounds mapped to the individual’s availability and to the group activities, respectively. In this paper we present an auditory display using auditory icons to create an interactive soundscape that support opportunistic interactions and awareness. Presence and activity are conveyed by changes in the soundscape. Our goal in this work is to explore the potential of this type of system for supporting awareness...

Proc. of DMS 2008, 2008

In this paper we address the issue of privacy in Online Social Networks (OSN), focusing on those that use environmental sound as a contextual cue for users activity. Through the use of a costume-made research tool consisting of an Online Sound-Based Social Network (OSBSN), we undertook scientific experiments aiming to assess how users deal with the use of sound. Results show that contextual sound is regarded as important and useful for OSN but raises important privacy concerns. In order to deal with this constraint, we propose a system based on the automatic classification of sound environment rather than capturing and sharing actual audio.

2005

We describe a method for notifying users through auditory cues embedded in an ambient soundscape in the environment. It uses pieces of music which are composed in such a way, that particular instruments or motifs can be added or omitted without losing the aesthetic quality of the overall composition. This allows for very subtle modifications in the soundscape which are only noticed by those users who have chosen this particular instrument or motif as "their" notification instrument before. As a side effect, the soundscape itself can be used to subtly influence the mood of users. The method has been implemented in a prototype, which we briefly discuss. The prototype is implemented using a spatial audio framework and can hence notify users from particular directions.

2010

In this paper we present an initial study of music listening patterns on mobile devices combined with contextual information. The study included N=7 participants that carried a smart phone for a duration of two weeks. The participants used the main features of the phone along the music player capabilities. All phone activities and data from embedded sensors were recorded along the music being played on the device. We report initial indications that listening patterns in terms of music genre preferences are influenced by whether the user is in a static environment or on the move. Applying a simple decision tree algorithm to identify what contexts determine the preferences indicate that our listening patterns change over time, suggesting that music applications utilizing context information must be designed to adapt to our shifting preferences as they continuously evolve.

2011

ABSTRACT This paper outlines the methodology and preliminary results obtained from the Sound Around You projects dataset. This large scale public participation soundscape research project has gathered soundscape recordings from 200 respondents along with subjective responses and opinions for each. The objective metrics extracted from each recording describe the soundscape using a musical analysis model, with metrics such as tonality, rhythm and structure.

This paper discusses an exploration using a concurrent auditory displays for awareness and lightweight interactions. The design of this type of system and comparisons to existing awareness tools are discussed. The auditory display system in this exploration was designed to explore, using concurrent auditory icons, the issue of group awareness. The sounds used in this auditory display where selected based on their identification derived from individual's personal constructs using the Repertory Grid Technique. The system was designed to create a 'soundscape' of concurrent ecological sounds mapped to the individual's availability and to the group activities, respectively. In this paper we present an auditory display using auditory icons to create an interactive soundscape that support opportunistic interactions and awareness. Presence and activity are conveyed by changes in the soundscape. Our goal in this work is to explore the potential of this type of system for supporting awareness and lightweight interactions.