| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The frequency-weighting A used for noise measurement was determined based on hearing characteristics expressed as equal-loudness-level contours. The time-averaged, A-weighted sound level (LAeq) of a sound corresponds well with the perceived loudness. However, good correspondence between LAeq and the perceived loudness is confined to cases in which listeners are young people with normal hearing. In this study, psychoacoustic experiments were conducted to investigate loudness of various sounds perceived by young adults and older adults aged over 60. Analyses of results revealed that sound levels weighted by older listeners' hearing characteristics matched the judged loudness better than LAeq values did. Based on the results, a noise evaluation method was proposed, which can evaluate noises for senior citizens more accurately than the conventional method using A-weighting.
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