@article {Boehm:2018:0736-2935:3500,
title = "The STI-Matrix - An Innovative Simulation-Based Method for the Acoustic Evaluation and Assessment of Offices and Public Areas",
journal = "INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings",
parent_itemid = "infobike://ince/incecp",
publishercode ="ince",
year = "2018",
volume = "258",
number = "4",
publication date ="2018-12-18T00:00:00",
pages = "3500-3508",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0736-2935",
url = "https://ince.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ince/incecp/2018/00000258/00000004/art00057",
author = "Boehm, Michael",
abstract = "Complaints about noise in offices, restaurants and other public areas mostly originate in unwanted intelligibility of speech from other areas or in a lack of intelligibility within the own communication area. For any planning scenario these problems can be uncovered and minimized using
computer-based simulation techniques. An innovative method which checks the requirements for the intelligibility by an automated calculation of the Speech Transmission Index STI for every pair of workplaces/positions will be presented using practical examples. The most important steps of a
target-oriented acoustic planning are demonstrated - including the determination of the background noise, the STI calculation to the interpretation of the intelligibility-based "assessment-matrix".",
}