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Annoyance
About: Annoyance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2015 publications have been published within this topic receiving 38300 citations. The topic is also known as: annoy.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a survey to assess noise annoyance and psychotropic medication among residents of the Helsinki Capital Region of Finland and also assessed the associations of annoyance and road-traffic noise with sleep disorders, anxiety and depression.
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TL;DR: Noise annoyance is associated with atrial fibrillation for the first time, and different degrees of annoyance were not associated with changes in cardiovascular risk factors.
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TL;DR: In this article, a combination of a socio-acoustic survey on self-reported noise annoyance and a contingent valuation questionnaire is used to estimate willingness to pay for noise reduction for urban residents living in Copenhagen.
Abstract: A combination of a socio-acoustic survey on self-reported noise annoyance and a contingent valuation questionnaire is used to estimate willingness to pay for noise reduction for urban residents living in Copenhagen. It is found that the annoyance level has a significant effect on the stated WTP. Expected WTP per dB reduction is subsequently calculated by combining WTP for each annoyance level with the estimated dose-response function for the relationship between noise exposure and annoyance. It is found that the expected WTP for a one dB noise reduction is increasing with the noise level from e.g. 2 EUR at 55 dB to 10 EUR at 75 dB.
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TL;DR: In this article, the perceived impact of traffic noise exposure on residents in five rural, alpine communities was assessed in an epidemiological study (1989 adults, aged 25-65), using subjective and objective exposure indices.
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TL;DR: Results indicate that both acoustic parameters and semantic content can be used to design collision warnings with a range of urgency levels and that verbal warnings tailored to a specific hazard situation may improve hazard-matching capabilities without substantial trade-offs in perceived annoyance.
Abstract: Matching the perceived urgency of an alert with the relative hazard level of the situation is critical for effective alarm response. Two experiments describe the impact of acoustic and semantic parameters on ratings of perceived urgency, annoyance and alerting effectiveness and on alarm response speed. Within a simulated driving context, participants rated and responded to collision avoidance system (CAS) messages spoken by a female or male voice (experiments 1 and 2, respectively). Results indicated greater perceived urgency and faster alarm response times as intensity increased from -2 dB signal to noise (S/N) ratio to +10 dB S/N, although annoyance ratings increased as well. CAS semantic content interacted with alarm intensity, indicating that at lower intensity levels participants paid more attention to the semantic content. Results indicate that both acoustic and semantic parameters independently and interactively impact CAS alert perceptions in divided attention conditions and this work can inform auditory alarm design for effective hazard matching. Matching the perceived urgency of an alert with the relative hazard level of the situation is critical for effective alarm response. Here, both acoustic and semantic parameters independently and interactively impacted CAS alert perceptions in divided attention conditions. This work can inform auditory alarm design for effective hazard matching. STATEMENT OF RELEVANCE: Results indicate that both acoustic parameters and semantic content can be used to design collision warnings with a range of urgency levels. Further, these results indicate that verbal warnings tailored to a specific hazard situation may improve hazard-matching capabilities without substantial trade-offs in perceived annoyance.
56 citations