@article {Soares:2021:0736-2935:3085,
title = "Implementing auralized CPB sounds on a pedestrian simulator",
journal = "INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings",
parent_itemid = "infobike://ince/incecp",
publishercode ="ince",
year = "2021",
volume = "263",
number = "3",
publication date ="2021-08-01T00:00:00",
pages = "3085-3096",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0736-2935",
url = "https://ince.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ince/incecp/2021/00000263/00000003/art00014",
doi = "doi:10.3397/IN-2021-2304",
author = "Soares, Francisco and Pereira, Frederico and Silva, Emanuel and Silva, Carlos and Sousa, Emanuel and Freitas, Elisabete",
abstract = "Recently, several studies on pedestrian safety and particularly those addressing pedestrian crossing behaviour and decision-making, have been performed using virtual reality systems. The use of simulators to assess pedestrian behaviour is conditioned by the feeling of presence and immersion,
for which the sound is a determining factor. This paper presents an implementation procedure in which tyre-road noise samples are auralized and presented as auditory stimuli in a virtual environment, for assessing pedestrian crossing decision-making. The auditory samples obtained through the
Close Proximity (CPX) method and subsequently auralized to represent Controlled Pass-By (CPB) sounds reproduce the sounds of a vehicle approaching a crosswalk. The auralized sounds together with the presentation of visual stimuli composed an experiment which was carried out with 30 participants.
Safety indicators, as the time-to-passage at the moment that participants decided to cross a virtual crosswalk and the minimum time-to-collision were registered and compared with data obtained in real-world road crossings. A comparison with real world data points to a close alignment between
results obtained in virtual and real environments, indicating a good suitability of the approach for studying pedestrian crossing behaviour.",
}