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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, a study of community annoyance caused by civil aircraft noise exposure was carried out in 18 areas around Gimpo and Gimhae international airports in order to accumulate social survey data and assess the relationship between aircraft noise levels and annoyance responses in Korea.
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TL;DR: It seems that LFN has increased arousal level of participants, and extraversion has a considerable impact on mental performance, and neuroticism does not influence mental performance.
Abstract: Low frequency noise (LFN) as background noise in urban and work environments is emitted from many artificial sources such as road vehicles, aircraft, and air movement machinery including wind turbines, compressors, and ventilation or air conditioning units. In addition to objective effects, LFN could also cause noise annoyance and influence mental performance; however, there are no homogenous findings regarding this issue. The purpose of this research was to study the effects of LFN on mental performance and annoyance, as well as to consider the role of extraversion and neuroticism on the issue. This study was conducted on 90 students of Iran University of Medical Sciences (54 males and 36 females). The mean age of the students was 23.46 years (SD = 1.97). Personality traits and noise annoyance were measured by using Eysenck Personality Inventory and a 12-scale self-reported questionnaire, respectively. Stroop and Cognitrone computerized tests measured mental performance of participants each exposed to 50 and 70 dBA of LFN and silence. LFNs were produced by Cool Edit Pro 2.1 software. There was no significant difference between mental performance parameters under 50 and 70 dBA of LFN, whereas there were significant differences between most mental performance parameters in quiet and under LFN (50 and 70 dBA). This research showed that LFN, compared to silence, increased the accuracy and the test performance speed (p 0.01). Introverts conducted the tests faster than extraverts (p < 0.05). This research showed that neuroticism does not influence mental performance. It seems that LFN has increased arousal level of participants, and extraversion has a considerable impact on mental performance.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the impact of traffic noise on exposed owners and employees of businesses near to road edge in Amman, Jordan and found that women were more annoyed by traffic noise than men.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a laboratory situation was created in which the participants rated a number of sounds before, after, and while performing a cognitively demanding memory task, and the results of these laboratory experiments support the notion that annoyance cannot be conceived of as a purely perceptual sound property; rather, it is influenced by the degree of interference with the task at hand.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined visual perception influenced by fluctuating light levels in order to determine acceptable tolerance ranges for light changes and investigated whether the change of light levels significantly impairs the performance of computer-related reading tasks as a surrogate for a productivity test.
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