Perception of room size and room shape through passive echolocation experiment

his article is proposing a method to investigate the ability of human beings to hear and interpret size and shape information of rectangular rooms at 2 positions inside it (center and corner) by means of passive echolocation through tongue clicks. This study was carried out on room clusters grouped by equivalent reverberation time. The proposed method relies on one ABX-type listening tests. This experiment consists in telling if the participant can hear differences in the auralized rooms. Rooms compared having large or close volume or only differing by their height were difficult to perceive. Spaces only having different length are easier to perceive in the center of a room than in its corner.

ISBN:978-80-228-3157-4

Publication year:2019

Accessibility:Open