By using the modernly developed techniques of possibility and set-valued statistics, this paper determined the thresholds of various categories of noise annoyance and defined the dose-response relation between the lev...By using the modernly developed techniques of possibility and set-valued statistics, this paper determined the thresholds of various categories of noise annoyance and defined the dose-response relation between the levels of noise and their annoyance. Three factors controlled in the experiment were types of noise: impulse and traffic; level of noise: 5Leq from 45 - 85 dB (A); and performance task: with and without speech recognition. Noise interference with speech recognition was measured with the SDT method. Our ex-perimental results showed that Leq of impulse noise should be higher than that of traffic noise to get equal annoyance; the speech recognition task might lighten the experience of annoyance; the higher the level of noise, the more its interference with the speech recognition, that is. the less the value of d '.展开更多
文摘By using the modernly developed techniques of possibility and set-valued statistics, this paper determined the thresholds of various categories of noise annoyance and defined the dose-response relation between the levels of noise and their annoyance. Three factors controlled in the experiment were types of noise: impulse and traffic; level of noise: 5Leq from 45 - 85 dB (A); and performance task: with and without speech recognition. Noise interference with speech recognition was measured with the SDT method. Our ex-perimental results showed that Leq of impulse noise should be higher than that of traffic noise to get equal annoyance; the speech recognition task might lighten the experience of annoyance; the higher the level of noise, the more its interference with the speech recognition, that is. the less the value of d '.