Abstract
Evaluation of noise annoyance has to take into account the multidimensionality in a given social situation. Noise annoyance research needs an interdisciplinary procedure methodologically including acoustics, physics, psychology, and sociology. People’s judgments depend on multiple factors like environmental area, noise source, characteristic of noises, number of noise events over a day, subjective experience with noises, the social situation, etc. Judging annoyance includes a wide range of variability, which is highly correlated with the variability of living conditions. Considering those contextual conditions of noise annoyance judgments is one important procedure regarding the measurement on annoyance toward noise of combined sources. Taking into account the knowledge on annoyance judgments relying on different subject-oriented conditions, a measurement is needed which refers to objective and subjective parameters. The combination of noise sources is for the judgment of annoyance as well as important subjective parameters. Moreover, the relationship of both defines the background for assessments. Based on an analysis of interviews concerning noises from different sources and on the literature [e.g., Fields et al. (1998), Hatfield and Job (1998)], a proposal for an approach in noise annoyance measurement will be presented.
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