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Listening and Talking about Sound: exploring effective descriptors for everyday sounds with non-expert listeners
KTH. (Creative Media Technology)
STMS Ircam - CNRS – SU, France.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID. (Creative Media Technology)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9404-851x
2025 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

A key challenge in sonic interaction design is the lack of a shared vocabulary for describing sound in ways non-experts can easily understand. To address this, we investigate the intuitive use of a lexicon originally developed for communication between sound designers and stakeholders. Building on a pre-study with pre-labeled stimuli, this new study tests the descriptors with a larger, unlabeled dataset. Through online listening tests, participants categorized sounds using selected descriptors, and their responses were compared to expert labels. Our findings confirm that descriptors such as Rough, Smooth, Metallic are the most intuitively well understood; Dull, Warm, Round and Non Round are also relatively well understood. These results inform ongoing research on sound preferences and the development of tools for personalized sonic interactions, helping listeners articulate their preferences for user-centered sonic interactions.

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2025.
Keywords [en]
listening, sound descriptors, environmental sound, sound preferences
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Design
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Art, Technology and Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-366238OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-366238DiVA, id: diva2:1981801
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Forum Acusticum / Euronoise 2025, the 11th EAA Annual European Conference on Acoustics and Noise Control Engineering, Malaga, Spain, June 23-26, 2025
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QC 20250711

Available from: 2025-07-06 Created: 2025-07-06 Last updated: 2025-07-11Bibliographically approved

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