Conveners
A18.03 Soundscape methods, monitoring and metrics: S130
- Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès (La Salle, Universitat Ramón Llull)
A18.03 Soundscape methods, monitoring and metrics: P508
- Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès (La Salle, Universitat Ramón Llull)
A18.03 Soundscape methods, monitoring and metrics: S254
- Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès (La Salle, Universitat Ramón Llull)
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Catherine Guastavino (McGill University)09/09/2026, 08:40A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
Despite advances in soundscape research, its application to urban planning and design practice remains limited. In many professional contexts, engagement with sound is still reduced to simplified metrics, if considered at all, leaving practitioners without the conceptual grounding or tools required to consider soundscapes. While raising sound-awareness remains an ongoing challenge, awareness...
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Oluwademilade Oshin (University of Nottingham)09/09/2026, 09:00A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
Measurement of sound levels at music venues and events is important, and sometimes mandated, to protect audience members’ hearing, limit annoyance to neighbours, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and/or best-practice guidelines. However, ongoing logging of sound levels generates a vast amount of data that varies greatly by format depending on the equipment and methods used....
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Martijn Lugten (TU Delft)09/09/2026, 09:00A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
This paper reviews urban and (landscape-) architectural design approaches that aim to better integrate sound mitigation and soundscape enhancement within spatial planning and design. While conventional noise control strategies often rely on late-stage technical fixes, a growing body of work advocates for embedding acoustic considerations earlier in the design process. Central to this review is...
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Arnaud CAN (UMRAE)09/09/2026, 09:20A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
SonoRezé project (Rezé, France) explores how participatory action research can bridge the gap between expert knowledge and lived experience in urban sound environments through a residents / researchers / elected officials collaboration framework. Conducted in two phases (2021–2025), the project combines citizen-based noise measurements, qualitative investigations, and co-design workshops...
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Patrick Blättermann (Hochschule Düsseldorf)09/09/2026, 09:40A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
Recent soundscape research commonly adopts the ISO 12913 circumplex to evaluate and predict perceptions of acoustic environments. This psychometric model represents soundscape perception in a circular space defined by the latent dimensions Pleasantness and Eventfulness, with eight Perceived Affective Quality items (pleasant, annoying, calm, chaotic, vibrant, monotonous, eventful, and...
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Sean Kenji Cragg (Acoustics Innovation Institute)09/09/2026, 10:00A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
Perception of a soundscape is shaped significantly by the dominant sound sources present in an acoustic environment. Spatial characteristics have also been suggested to influence how a soundscape is perceived. Soundscape recordings are often analysed holistically rather than at the level of individual sources; the ability to separate and analyse sources individually could enable deeper insight...
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Emmanouil Lianis (NKUA)09/09/2026, 10:40A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
This study investigates the acoustic characteristics of urban soundscapes in Athens, Greece, through the application of four complementary acoustic indices: Acoustic Entropy (H), Bioacoustic Index (BI), Dynamic Spectral Centroid (DSC), and Normalized Difference Soundscape Index (NDSI). A dataset of 36 recordings was collected across diverse urban environments, including traffic-dominated...
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Jakub Dumanowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)09/09/2026, 11:00A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
The acoustic environment can be assessed using two related but conceptually different frameworks: the soundscape approach defined in ISO/TS 12913-2:2018 and the noise annoyance approach described in ISO/TS 15666:2021. Their comparison is particularly important in relation to annoyance. In the soundscape framework, “annoying” is one of eight perceptual attributes, whereas in ISO/TS 15666...
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Valentina Zaffaroni-Caorsi (University of Milano-Bicocca)09/09/2026, 11:20A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
Coral reefs are increasingly threatened by climate change and human pressures, highlighting the need for effective monitoring tools. This study assesses whether underwater soundscape features reflect ecological conditions in a lagoon reef (Magoodhoo, Maldives) using Passive Acoustic Monitoring at a control site (coral rubble) and a treated site with a restoration structure; acoustic metrics...
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4510. A portable measurement system to categorise local, low- frequency noise immission (FA2026/336)Criostoir Gerasch (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)09/09/2026, 11:40A18 Soundscape, Environmental Quality, Health and Well-being
Infrasound, referring to acoustic sound waves between 0 and 20Hz, is becoming more prevalent in our daily lives as large energy converters such as wind-turbines and biogas power plants are commissioned with an increase in scale and in closer proximity to residential areas. The ability to capture the extent of this noise exposure currently relies on localised measurement campaigns with a narrow...
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