Acoustics Research
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Adult Relaxation – Environmental noise, stress, sleep, wellbeing
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Evidence-based approach to perceived comfort/calmness.
ISO 12913-3:2019. Acoustics — Soundscape — Part 3: Data analysis. ISO.
High-level medical/public health framing—avoid “medical claims,” but cite for background.
Basner, M., Babisch, W., Davis, A., Brink, M., Clark, C., Janssen, S., & Stansfeld, S. (2014). Auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health. The Lancet, 383(9925), 1325–1332.
Evidence-based link between environmental noise and sleep disturbance, annoyance, health risk—useful for conservative “supports relaxation/rest” language
World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. (2018). Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region. Copenhagen: WHO.
Quality Family Time – Reverberation, speech intelligibility, listening effort & fatigue
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Credibility on intelligibility metrics (MTF/STI family concepts).
Room parameters predicting intelligibility; useful for explaining why “the room is the product.”
Bradley, J. S. (1986). Predictors of speech intelligibility in rooms. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 80(3), 837–845.
Widely-recognized criteria linking reverberation/noise to speech clarity; even though “schools,” it supports “speech clarity” arguments in family spaces.
ANSI/ASA S12.60. (latest edition; original 2002). Acoustical Performance Criteria, Design Requirements, and Guidelines for Schools. Acoustical Society of America / American National Standards Institute.