@InProceedings{Höchstetter2015_379,
<br/>   author = {Marius Höchstetter and Philipp Seifert and Oliver Jokisch and Jesko L. Verhey and Ulrich Gabbert},
<br/>   booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2015},
<br/>   title = {In uence of synthetically varied signal parameters of impulsive vehicle sounds on perceived quality},
<br/>   year = {2015},
<br/>   editor = {Günther Wirsching},
<br/>   month = mar,
<br/>   pages = {264--271},
<br/>   publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
<br/>   abstract  = {A major aspect in the design process of an industrial product is to associate
high quality and to evoke customer satisfaction. The product has to fulfill
or even to exceed the individual’s expectations. Focusing on the general design
of common vehicles, all inherent quality criteria contribute to the customer’s judgment
on perceivable product quality. Therefore, the acoustic characteristics prove
as a core criterion for car manufacturers to increasingly strive for a positive impression
on the auditory sensation. In this respect, impulsive sounds have a substantial
influence on perceived quality since they are the decisive sounds at the first contact
inside a dealership [1]. The current study focuses on the influence of signal
parameters on perceived sound quality and therefore analyzes synthetic variations
of the door locking sound. As an initial step, hearing tests were carried out. The
attack and decay time of the main impulse as well as the time properties of a second
impulse showed highly significant influence on perceived sound quality. Thus,
these signal attributes were synthetically altered and further evaluated in a psychoacoustical
experiment using relative and absolute comparison tests [2]. According to
this approach, the initial attack time appears as the major influence factor on sound
quality followed by the decay time. Moreover, the presence of the second impulse
contributes to the listeners’s expectation describing the feeling of a securely locked
door. The present results enables the vehicle engineer to positively influence the
acoustic behavior by optimizing the significant effects of synthetic alterations on
perceived quality.},
<br/>   isbn = {978-3-959080-00-2},
<br/>   issn = {0940-6832},
<br/>   keywords = {Klangdesign},
<br/>   url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2015_264_271.pdf},
<br/>}