Verbal and nonverbal elicitation techniques in the subjective assessment of spatial sound reproduction

Mason, R Ford, N Rumsey, F De Bruyn, B

R. Mason et al., Verbal and nonverbal elicitation techniques in the subjective assessment of spatial sound reproduction, J AUD ENG S, 49(5), 2001, pp. 366-384

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Optics & Acoustics

JOURNAL OF THE AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY → ACNP

49

5

2001

366 - 384

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Current research into spatial audio has shown an increasing interest in the way subjective attributes of reproduced sound are elicited from listeners. The emphasis at present is on verbal semantics, however, studies suggest t hat nonverbal methods of elicitation could be beneficial. Research into the relative merits of these methods has found that nonverbal responses may re sult in different elicited attributes compared to verbal techniques. Nonver bal responses may be closer to the perception of the stimuli than the verba l interpretation of this perception. There is evidence that drawing is not as accurate as other nonverbal methods of elicitation when it comes to repo rting the localization of auditory images. However, the advantage of drawin g is its ability to describe the whole auditory space rather than a single dimension.