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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: The interaction between these factors provides additional evidence to support the role of audiovisual attention in the emergence of noise annoyance.

44 citations

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TL;DR: The proportion of the Hong Kong population exposed to high levels (>70 dB) is similar to that found in Europe, however, a much higher proportion is exposed to Lden levels of 60–64 dB, and a much lower proportion to lower levels (<55 dB).
Abstract: Particularly in Asia, dense, traffic-intense, and usually high-rise cities are increasingly the norm. Is existing knowledge on exposure to road traffic noise, and on people’s response to such exposure, garnered primarily from western cities, equally applicable in these? Hong Kong has high population and traffic density and a high-rise building form. Road traffic noise exposure was estimated, and residents’ responses to traffic noise measured, for a sample of 10,077 dwellings. Noise level estimates were based on three-dimensional modelling. Best international survey practice measured self-reported annoyance and sleep-disturbance. Benchmark estimates of exposure, and of annoyance and self-reported sleep disturbance, are provided. We compare Hong Kong exposure with those of European cities, and the exposure-response relationship for annoyance in Hong Kong to those reported from elsewhere - based on the tolerance limits of previous syntheses. Exposure-response for self-reported sleep disturbance is also compared. The distribution of exposures of dwellings in high-rise, high-density, Hong Kong is different from those reported from Europe, but not at the higher noise levels. The exposure-annoyance relationship for road traffic noise was from the same population of exposure-response relationships, being well within the tolerance limits, of studies used to generate the synthesized Miedema and Oudshoorn curves. The exposure-response curve for self-reported sleep disturbance was parallel to that of Miedema and Vos but slightly lower. The proportion of the Hong Kong population exposed to high levels (>70 dB) is similar to that found in Europe. However, a much higher proportion, compared to European cities, is exposed to Lden levels of 60–64 dB, and a much lower proportion to lower levels (<55 dB). There is no evidence that the exposure-response relationships for annoyance and self-reported sleep disturbance in Hong Kong are different from relationships synthesized from earlier studies - despite the western bias and temperate-climate bias in the studies available in the syntheses. This is an important finding for urban planning and traffic noise management of the growing mega-cities in the world whose built forms can be expected to reflect that of Hong Kong more than of cities in the west.

44 citations

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TL;DR: Noise annoyance stress (NAS-Scale) was negatively correlated with the perceptions of a lack of fairness of the wind project's planning and development process, among other subjective variables, and Objective indicators were not found to be correlated to noise annoyance.

44 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of spatial factors extracted from the interaural cross-correlation function (IACF) on annoyance of noise stimuli are examined, and the results show that annoyance increased by increasing the fluctuations of IACC as well as the SPL, while the previously developed indices to measure sound pressure levels and frequency characteristics cannot fully explain the psychological effects of noise.

44 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a case-control study of hypertension from the Finnish Twin Cohort who had replied to a questionnaire in 1988 was carried out, where self-report of noise exposure was compared with the information on noise maps while taking into account measures of self-reported annoyance.

44 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023187
2022275
202166
202055
201968
201890