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Title: | Pedestrian navigation through multi-track spatial music | Authors: | Adamczyk, Jelco | Advisors: | HELLER, Florian LUYTEN, Kris |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | tUL | Abstract: | Spatial audio exploits the human's natural ability to localize the origin of a sound by applying special filters to recorded audio. An interesting application of this is providing strong navigational cues to pedestrians without visual aids, creating a hand-free experience. Current systems require users to listen for artificial beacon sources (which blocks the use of headphones for other sources) or re-position an entire song in space, severely reducing the listening experience. In this Master's thesis, we present a system that utilizes multi-track recordings to provide navigational cues by shifting only a single track in auditory space. In a real-world field study with 17 participants, who walked a route in a small village centre, we used varied popular music to guide them from waypoint to waypoint. The impact of different types of beacon tracks (Vocals, Drums and 'Mix of Lead Instruments/Vocals') were studied, finding the Vocals to be the most effective and preferred by the participants. The users managed to complete the test successfully and rated the experiment fun with a listening experience close to common music listening. | Notes: | master in de informatica | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/29310 | Category: | T2 | Type: | Theses and Dissertations |
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