A study of evaluating the button sounds

Abstract

A lot of attention has been directed at designing various sounds that are treated as noise, such as automobile acceleration sounds and cleaner sounds. The idea of sound being a normal part of product operation has permeated society. We focused on sound design and evaluated it with 11 kinds of button sounds. First, an impression was extracted by the semantic differential (SD) method, and the relevance of that impression was investigated by time frequency analysis. Next, we confirmed whether or not the impression changed when a sound that generated a bad impression was processed using an adaptive control into a sound that generated a good impression.