Search for dissertations about: "soundscape"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word soundscape.

  2. 6. Adding Audibility - Reifying the Soundscape of Process Operators

    Author : Petter Alexanderson; Institutionen för informatik; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Technological sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; systemteori; Informatik; systems theory; Informatics; Process Control; Acoustic Ecology; Interaction Design; Auditory Interaction; Teknik;

    Abstract : A contemporary challenge when designing interactive artifacts is to take into account the wealth of devices, systems, and tools people use every day - here termed an 'interaction ecology'. This thesis addresses three research issues. Firstly, the character of sound perception, and how auditory interaction can be applied to ubiquitous computing. READ MORE

  4. 7. Silent Modernism : Soundscapes and the Unsayable in Richardson, Joyce, and Woolf

    Author : Annika Lindskog; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; silence; modernist fiction; realism; the unsayable; soundscapes; Dorothy Richardson; Virginia Woolf; James Joyce;

    Abstract : This thesis examines silence in modernist fiction, explaining how it forms a central aspect of realism in the modernist novel. It is based on close readings of the form and function of silence in the works of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. READ MORE

  5. 8. Numerical modelling of sound propagation to closed urban courtyards

    Author : Maarten Hornikx; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; courtyard; urban noise abatement schemes; pseudospectral; road traffic noise; equivalent sources method; scale model study; urban canyon;

    Abstract : Because modern urban environments suffer from excessive levels of road traffic noise, access to closed courtyards is essential in order to offer urban sound environments of high quality with regard to health and perceived sound. To reach this quality, which is described by the quiet side definition, the 24-hour equivalent noise level should be below 45 dB(A). READ MORE

  6. 9. Management regimes for lawns and hedges in historic gardens

    Author : Joakim Seiler; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; Management regimes; historical gardening; craft; eighteenth-century gardens; lawns; hedges;

    Abstract : Management regimes for lawns and hedges in historic gardens This research investigates and compares eighteenth-century and contemporary garden management methods with a focus on the structural elements of lawns and hedges at Gunnebo House, which is used as a craft laboratory. The concept of management regime is utilized for a discourse analysis of the garden through the norms embedded in the management. READ MORE