Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Indoor Soundscape in Residential Areas

Abstract

This research establishes the relation between the soundscape perception in a residential context and the acoustic environment of an urban environment, taking into consideration the auditory perception of the space users based on their cultural and social backgrounds. Therefore, a case study is performed using a questionnaire methodology on two groups of people within the same urban environment; Arabic people and Turkish people living in the city of Ankara, Turkey. Moreover, the study ensures a comprehensive use of the soundscape perception evaluation criteria utilized in several studies in the literature. Literature review on related research has been put together through literature matrix method. In this first phase of the study, residential soundscape questionnaire and the methodology is presented. This is an ongoing graduate study and the findings will be presented in the second phase. Through the results of the future analysis, the researchers aim to understand the impacts and variations of cultural and social factors on the soundscape perception.