Session: | A14-06: Indoor soundscaping - Part II |
Date: | Wednesday 13 September 2023 |
Time: | 11:00 - 11:20 |
Title: | Long-term Monitoring of Irrelevant Speech Noise in Open-plan Offices with and without Lighting Feedback to the Occupants |
Author(s): |
V.I. Fissore, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Turin, Italy
M. Saugo, Politecnico di Torino, Dep. of Control and Computer Engineering, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Turin, Italy
G. Puglisi, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Energy, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
L. Shtrepi, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Energy, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
F. Riente, Politecnico di Torino, Dep. of Electronics and Telecommunication, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
A. Servetti, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
F. Pellerey, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Turin, Italy
R. Lecis, Adequat s.r.l., Via Drovetti, 20, 10138 Turin, Italy
S. Gilotta, Adequat s.r.l., Via Drovetti, 20, 10138 Turin, Italy
F. Sansone, Intesa Sanpaolo, Piazza San Carlo, 156, 10121 Turin, Italy
G.C. Bianchi, Intesa Sanpaolo, Piazza San Carlo, 156, 10121 Turin, Italy
L. D'Apuzzo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Piazza San Carlo, 156, 10121 Turin, Italy
L. Giusti, Intesa Sanpaolo, Piazza San Carlo, 156, 10121 Turin, Italy
A. Astolfi, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Energy, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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Pages: | 2615-2618 |
DOI: | https://www.doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.1073 |
PDF: | https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2023/data/articles/001073.pdf |
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Abstract
Irrelevant speech noise is one of the main sources of noise that negatively affect
health, well-being, comfort and performance in densely occupied environments. The
use of devices that provide lighting feedback based on noise levels generated by
occupants could promote occupants change in their behaviour and therefore an
improvement of acoustic conditions. In the present work, a long-term monitoring
campaign was performed with the S3EM (Speech and Sound SEMaphore) device, that
monitors noise levels and visualises their variation through an integrated
coloured lighting feedback (i.e., red, yellow and green) based on the results of
an advanced algorithm. Six S3EM devices were used in two Intesa Sanpaolo
headquarters offices in Milan (Italy) for a total of 4 weeks. In the first and
fourth weeks the lighting feedback was off, in the second and third weeks it was
on. This procedure allows to evaluate the lighting feedback effect on occupants.
Before the in-field campaign, the S3EM devices were calibrated and the correct
settings involved in the algorithm were defined for their optimization to the
sonic environment profile. The S3EM monitoring was integrated with the
ethnographic observation method to describe interactions of occupants with the
task, the work environment and with the S3EM.
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