Development and Evaluation of Educational Program to Encourage Understanding of Sound Relationships in Soundscapes

Abstract

"Sound Education" aims to cultivate an ability to understand sound structurally. In order to improve this ability, we developed an application that allows users to create soundscapes by trial and error. From the experimental results, we found that while most subjects could understand the effect of a certain sound on a soundscape, half of them could not understand the similarity and difference of sounds. To solve this problem, we propose to ask users to give unique names to sound materials.