Contribution

Cancelled: No more wet paper: Digitizing the Soundwalk Questionnaire - The Soundwalk-Web-App

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Day / Time: 20.03.2025, 10:20-10:40
Typ: Regular Lectures
Session: Soundscape
Abstract:

Have you ever performed a soundwalk analysis? Did your sample size go past 20 participants? How was the evaluation? Manual transfer of paper questionnaires to excel? Yes, that is what we did, until we wanted to perform soundwalks in virtual reality, where paper proved unpractical. To solve all of this, we present the Soundwalk-Web-Application: An application suite to design, perform and analyze Soundwalks in a standardized manner. Conductors can design Soundwalk templates from multiple locations and create instances of those templates. Users can register for soundwalk instances, answering a set of personal questions, and are then led through the locations. At the locations, a recording of the listening period is performed on the user’s device before the location questions are answered. The recording and the answers are stored on the API server for later evaluation. When a soundwalk instance is completed by its conductor the soundwalk data will be analyzed and prepared for immediate visualization or CSV export. Using the UnrealEngine Plugin we can perform the identical questionnaire inside VR-environments, enabling comparative research with real and VR soundscapes. The App is currently used in university teaching courses and dissertation projects.