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Psychoacoustics Lab (Masayuki Takada)
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A lab that investigates the effects of sound on people from psychological and physiological perspectives.
AboutAbout the lab
Considering how sound should be designed, starting from its effects on people
The lab of Prof. Takada studies how sounds affect people, focusing on sounds generally regarded as noise, such as mechanical sounds, and on the sound environments around us.
It evaluates and analyzes these effects from psychological and physiological aspects, and explores how sound should be designed.
Past subjects include sounds around childcare facilities, car horns, product sounds, and sounds on a university campus.
It is the lab of a faculty member belonging to the Acoustic Design Course of the School of Design and the Graduate School of Design.
Key terms
- Sound environment
- The state of the sounds heard in a place. The lab studies settings such as the surroundings of childcare facilities and university campuses
- Soundscape
- An approach that treats sound like a landscape, as part of the environment
- Car horn
- A sound a car makes to alert those around it. The lab studies its effects on drivers and pedestrians
ResearchResearch themes
The lab evaluates and analyzes, from psychological and physiological aspects, the effects that mechanical sounds and surrounding sound environments have on people, and explores how sound should be designed. Its past subjects include sounds around childcare facilities, car horns, and product sounds.
*Illustrative imageSound barrier-free design on a university campus
The lab examines the sound environment of a university campus from the perspectives of soundscape and inclusive design. Paying attention to auditory hypersensitivity as well, this research considers barrier-free design for sound.
*Illustrative imageSounds of childcare facilities and residents' attitudes
The lab investigates the relationship between sounds generated by childcare facilities and the attitudes of neighboring residents, using measurements of the sound environment and attitude surveys. It also looks at how support for or opposition to a new facility relates to sensitivity to sound and willingness to take part in events.
*Illustrative imageCar horns and traffic system design
The lab investigates how car horns affect traffic noise and the people nearby, in relation to drivers' internal factors and the traffic environment. Its work includes a paper examining how horns are used in cities in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and it considers the design of horns and traffic systems for a next-generation mobility society.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating the value of product sounds
The lab analyzes the factors that influence how people evaluate the value of product sounds. Its papers cover topics such as the structure of value evaluation for the sound of a car door closing.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMasayuki Takada
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “French horn front” BenP / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Sound barrier-free design on a university campus: “Sound walk foss4g” User:Victuallers / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Sounds of childcare facilities and residents' attitudes: “Kvarnen nursery school in Brastad 4” W.carter / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Car horns and traffic system design: “Roundabout interchange” Petar Milošević / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating the value of product sounds: “C002005 Electrolux vacuum cleaner demonstration Te Papa” Gordon Burt (photographer) / Public domain (cropped)
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