| dc.description.abstract | The valuation of pavements using sound aspects is crucial for
a country with poor pavement conditions and a large population
of visually impaired people. This study recruited sighted and
visually impaired participants to conduct a “soundwalk” to appraise
the urban pavements. It was held in-situ on nine renovated pavement segments in Surabaya, Indonesia. Data were collected using
a questionnaire comprising open and closed-ended questions in
the format of a semantic scale. The SPL was also measured to
describe the sound level concerning participants’ sonic perception.
The semantic data were then extracted using varimax-rotated principal component analysis with a polychoric correlation. The sighted
group elicits two solid soundscape dimensions; pleasantness and
eventfulness. The visually impaired group evokes four soundscape
dimensions; pleasantness-direction-safety, space, eventfulness, and
contour. The soundscape dimensions reflect the pavements’ critical
factors and show that visually impaired participants appraise the
pavements in more detail than the sighted. | en_US |
