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Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards (2024)
Journal Article

The enforcement of noise pollution laws is impeded by subjective interpretations within legislation, fragmented statutes, and inconsistent enforcement mechanisms.
Noise pollution has significant impacts on public health, ranging from sleep disrupti... Read More about Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards.

Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production: Then, Now and What Next? (2023)
Book Chapter
Williams, D. (2023). Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production: Then, Now and What Next?. In . J.-P. Herbst (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music (70-82). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108991162.006

This chapter presents an overview of timbre in metal production from a psychoacoustic and computational musicology perspective, particularly focusing on the use of acoustic feature extraction. Both performance and recording technology have undoubtedl... Read More about Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production: Then, Now and What Next?.

Stress Detection And Alleviation Via Electrodermal Activity And Generative Music (2023)
Thesis

Accurate psychological stress detection systems have been created using a variety of methodologies and can provide users with real-time stress monitoring. Such systems can aid with providing early intervention and therapies for alleviation on order t... Read More about Stress Detection And Alleviation Via Electrodermal Activity And Generative Music.

Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits (2022)
Journal Article
Al-Taie, I., Di Franco, P., Tymkiw, M., Williams, D., & Daly, I. (2022). Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits. PLoS ONE, 17(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269370

Museums have widely embraced virtual exhibits. However, relatively little attention is paid to how sound may create a more engaging experience for audiences. To begin addressing this lacuna, we conducted an online experiment to explore how sound infl... Read More about Sonic enhancement of virtual exhibits.

What our bodies tell us about noise (2022)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (2022). What our bodies tell us about noise. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.689100

Noise is defined as unwanted sound. Not only is noise unwanted, it is expensive and bad for human health. But what sounds like noise to one person might be a happy sound for someone else, so how do we study noise? This article explains how we try to... Read More about What our bodies tell us about noise.

Generation and analysis of artificial warning sounds for electric scooters (2021)
Report

• emTransit B.V (Dott) is a European mobility operator currently operating over 30,000 electric scooters in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and now the UK. The company aims to expand its UK operations and has recently won a tender for the Tra... Read More about Generation and analysis of artificial warning sounds for electric scooters.

Psychophysiological approaches to sound and music in games (2021)
Book Chapter
Williams, D. (2021). Psychophysiological approaches to sound and music in games. In M. Fritsch, & T. Summers (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music (302-318). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108670289.019

Psychological research investigating sound and music has increasingly been adapted to the evaluation of soundtracking for games, and is now being considered in the development and design stages of some titles. This chapter summarizes the main finding... Read More about Psychophysiological approaches to sound and music in games.

On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health (2020)
Journal Article

Increasingly music has been shown to have both physical and mental health benefits including improvements in cardiovascular health, a link to reduction of cases of dementia in elderly populations, and improvements in markers of general mental well-be... Read More about On the use of AI for generation of functional music to improve mental health.

On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, D., Fazenda, B., Williamson, V., & Fazekas, G. (2020). On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music. Sensors, 20(16), e4528. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164528

Music has been shown to be capable of improving runners’ performance in treadmill and laboratory-based experiments. This paper evaluates a generative music system, namely HEARTBEATS, designed to create biosignal synchronous music in real-time accordi... Read More about On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music.

Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music (2020)
Journal Article
Daly, I., Nicolaou, N., Williams, D., Hwang, F., Kirke, A., Miranda, E., & Nasuto, S. (2020). Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music. Scientific Data, 7(1), 177. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0507-6

Music provides a means of communicating affective meaning. However, the neurological mechanisms by which music induces affect are not fully understood. Our project sought to investigate this through a series of experiments into how humans react to af... Read More about Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music.