PhD Thesis
You can download my PhD Thesis, titled Predictive Modelling of Complex Urban Soundscapes: Enabling an engineeering approach to soundscape design.
Journal Papers
2025
- Francesco Aletta, Arianna Astolfi, Jian Kang, Tin Oberman, and Andrew Mitchell. (2025) "Soundscape attributes translation: current projects and challenges." Applied Acoustics In Applied Acoustics doi: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2024.110305
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2024
- Francesco Aletta, Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang, Sara Khelil, Tallal Abdel Karim Bouzir, and et. al. (2024) "Soundscape descriptors in eighteen languages: translation and validation through listening experiments." Applied Acoustics In Applied Acoustics doi: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2024.110109
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- Xiaochao Chen, Francesco Aletta, Cleopatra Christina Moshona, André Fiebig, Helen Henze, Jian Kang, and et. al. (2024) "Developing a taxonomy of soundscape interventions from a catalogue of real-world examples." Acta Acustica In Acta Acustica doi: 10.1051/aacus/2024027
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- Xiang Fang, Francesco Aletta, Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, and Jian Kang. (2024) "Determining factors for the appropriateness of soundscapes: a cross-sectional large-sample study in London (UK)a)." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America doi: 10.1121/10.0034418
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- Yuanbo Hou, Bo Kang, Andrew Mitchell, Wenwu Wang, Jian Kang, and Dick Botteldooren. (2024) "Cooperative scene-event modelling for acoustic scene classification." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2023.3323135
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- Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, and Jian Kang. (2024) "Soundscape perception indices (SPIs): developing context-dependent single value scores of multidimensional soundscape perceptual quality." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America doi: 10.1121/10.0034417
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- Cleopatra Christina Moshona, André Fiebig, Francesco Aletta, Xiaochao Chen, Jian Kang, Andrew Mitchell, and et. al. (2024) "A framework to characterize and classify soundscape design practices based on grounded theory." Noise Mapping In Noise Mapping doi: 10.1515/noise-2024-0002
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2023
- Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, and Jian Kang. (2023) "Soundscape experience of public spaces in different world regions: a comparison between the european and chinese contexts via a large-scale on-site surveya)." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America doi: 10.1121/10.0020842
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- Yuanbo Hou, Qiaoqiao Ren, Huizhong Zhang, Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang, and et. al. (2023) "AI-based soundscape analysis: Jointly identifying sound sources and predicting annoyance." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America In The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America doi: 10.1121/10.0022408
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- Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Huan Tong, and et. al. (2023) "Supportive soundscapes are crucial for sustainable environments." Science of The Total Environment In Science of The Total Environment doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158868
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- Nikolaos M. Papadakis, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, Ioanna Aroni, and et. al. (2023) "City, town, village: potential differences in residents soundscape perception using ISO/TS 12913-2: 2018." Applied Acoustics In Applied Acoustics doi: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2023.109659
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- Jerónimo Vida, José Antonio Almagro, Rafael García-Quesada, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, and et. al. (2023) "Soundscape attributes in spanish: a comparison with the english version of the protocol proposed in method a of the ISO/TS 12913–2." Applied Acoustics In Applied Acoustics doi: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2023.109516
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2022
- Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Christopher Soelistyo, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang, Robert Aldridge, and et. al. (2022) "Effects of Soundscape Complexity on Urban Noise Annoyance Ratings: A Large-Scale Online Listening Experiment." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph192214872
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- Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, and Jian Kang. (2022) "How to analyse and represent quantitative soundscape data." JASA Express Letters In JASA Express Letters doi: 10.1121/10.0009794
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- Nikolaos M. Papadakis, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, and Georgios E. Stavroulakis. (2022) "Translation and cross-cultural adaptation methodology for soundscape attributes – A study with independent translation groups from English to Greek." Applied Acoustics In Applied Acoustics doi: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2022.109031
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2021
- Mercede Erfanian, Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, and Jian Kang. (2021) "Psychological well-being and demographic factors can mediate soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness: A large sample study." Journal of Environmental Psychology In Journal of Environmental Psychology doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101660
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- Matteo Lionello, Francesco Aletta, Andrew Mitchell, and Jian Kang. (2021) "Introducing a Method for Intervals Correction on Multiple Likert Scales: A Case Study on an Urban Soundscape Data Collection Instrument." Frontiers in Psychology In Frontiers in Psychology doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.602831
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- Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, Mercede Erfanian, and et. al. (2021) "Investigating urban soundscapes of the COVID-19 lockdown: A predictive soundscape modeling approach." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America In The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America doi: 10.1121/10.0008928
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- Ferran Orga, Andrew Mitchell, Marc Freixes, Francesco Aletta, Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès, and Maria Foraster. (2021) "Multilevel Annoyance Modelling of Short Environmental Sound Recordings." Sustainability In Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su13115779
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- Huan Tong, Francesco Aletta, Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, and Jian Kang. (2021) "Increases in noise complaints during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spring 2020: A case study in Greater London, UK." Science of The Total Environment In Science of The Total Environment doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147213
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- Jerónimo Vida, José Antonio Almagro, Rafael García-Quesada, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, and et. al. (2021) "Urban Soundscape Assessment by Visually Impaired People: First Methodological Approach in Granada (Spain)." Sustainability In Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su132413867
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- Jerónimo Vida Manzano, José Antonio Almagro Pastor, Rafael García Quesada, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, and et. al. (2021) "The "sound of silence" in Granada during the COVID-19 lockdown." Noise Mapping In Noise Mapping doi: 10.1515/noise-2021-0002
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2020
- Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, Huan Tong, and Jian Kang. (2020) "Assessing the changing urban sound environment during the COVID-19 lockdown period using short-term acoustic measurements." Noise Mapping In Noise Mapping doi: 10.1515/noise-2020-0011
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- Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, and et. al. (2020) "The Soundscape Indices (SSID) Protocol: A Method for Urban Soundscape Surveys–Questionnaires with Acoustical and Contextual Information." Applied Sciences In Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10072397
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2019
- Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Matteo Lionello, Magdalena Kachlicka, and et. al. (2019) "Associations between soundscape experience and self-reported wellbeing in open public urban spaces: A field study." The Lancet In The Lancet doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32814-4
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- Mercede Erfanian, Andrew Mitchell, Jian Kang, and Francesco Aletta. (2019) "The Psychophysiological Implications of Soundscape: A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature and a Research Agenda." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph16193533
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Conference Papers
2024
- J. Harvie-Clark, R. Romeo Pitone, L. Pereira, and Andrew Mitchell. (2024) "Integrating acoustics engineering and soundscape design for an urban park: a case study." Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023 In Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023 doi: 10.61782/fa.2023.0918
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- Andrew Mitchell. (2024) "Soundscapy: a python package for soundscape assessment and analysis." INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings In INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings doi: 10.3397/IN_2024_3404
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- X. Xu, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, S. Huang, F. Aletta, and J. Kang. (2024) "Effects of visual stimulus on soundscape perception: a pilot study using immersive virtual reality (IVR)." Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023 In Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023 doi: 10.61782/fa.2023.0732
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2023
- Yuanbo Hou, Andrew Mitchell, Qiaoqiao Ren, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang, and Dick Botteldooren. (2023) "Exploring annoyance in a soundscape context by joint prediction of sound source and annoyance." Forum Acusticum 2023 In Forum Acusticum 2023
- Yuanbo Hou, Siyang Song, Cheng Luo, Andrew Mitchell, Qiaoqiao Ren, Weicheng Xie, and et. al. (2023) "Joint Prediction of Audio Event and Annoyance Rating in an Urban Soundscape by Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning." INTERSPEECH 2023 In INTERSPEECH 2023 doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1021
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- Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, and Mercede Erfanian. (2023) "On the development of Soundscape Indices (SSID)." The 29th International Congress on Sound and Vibration In The 29th International Congress on Sound and Vibration
- Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell, and Mercede Erfanian. (2023) "Subjective evaluation of environmental sounds in context - Towards Soundscape Indices (SSID)." Forum Acusticum 2023 In Forum Acusticum 2023
- Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Mercede Erfanian, and Jian Kang. (2023) "A conceptual framework for the practical use of predictive models and Soundscape Indices: Goals, constraints, and applications." INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings In INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings doi: 10.3397/IN_2023_0309
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- Andrew Mitchell, Emmeline Brown, Ratneel Deo, Yuanbo Hou, Jasper Kirton-Wingate, Jinhua Liang, and et. al. (2023) "Deep learning techniques for noise annoyance detection: Results from an intensive workshop at the Alan Turing Institute." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America In The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America doi: 10.1121/10.0018787
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- Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, and Tin Oberman. (2023) "How do we define soundscape?." Forum Acusticum 2023 In Forum Acusticum 2023
2022
- Cleopatra Christina Moshona, Francesco Aletta, Helen Henze, Xiaochao Chen, Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, and et. al. (2022) "What is a soundscape intervention? Exploring definitions and identifi-cation criteria and a platform to gather real-world examples." 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (INTER-NOISE 2022) In 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (INTER-NOISE 2022)
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2021
- Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, and Jian Kang. (2021) "Development of a multi-level predictive soundscape model to assess the soundscapes of public spaces during the COVID-19 lockdowns." 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America In 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America doi: 10.1121/10.0008334
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2020
- Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès, Ferran Orga, Marc Freixes, Roger Mallol, Francesco Aletta, Andrew Mitchell, and et. al. (2020) "Urban environment soundscape evaluation: Milan case study of noise events perceptions by citizens." INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings In INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings
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2019
- Mercede Erfanian, Andrew Mitchell, and Jian Kang. (2019) "The neurophysiology and physiology of soundscape: A review of the empirical literature."
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- Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, and et. al. (2019) "Towards soundscape indices." Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics In Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics doi: 10.18154/RWTH-CONV-239249
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- Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, and et. al. (2019) "Making cities smarter with new soundscape indices." 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America In 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America doi: 10.1121/1.5136970
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- Andrew Mitchell and Jian Kang. (2019) "The spectral structure of acoustic time series can predict the perceptual assessment of urban soundscapes." 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America In 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America doi: 10.1121/1.5136681
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Other Publications
2024
- Yuanbo Hou, Qiaoqiao Ren, Andrew Mitchell, Wenwu Wang, Jian Kang, Tony Belpaeme, and et. al. (2024) "Soundscape captioning using sound affective quality network and large language model." arXiv doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.05914
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- Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, and Jian Kang. (2024) "Searching for a common understanding of 'soundscape': a critical look at the definitions and uses of the term." OSF doi: 10.31219/osf.io/6dbnu
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2023
- Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, and et. al. (2023) "The International Soundscape Database: An integrated multimedia database of urban soundscape surveys -- questionnaires with acoustical and contextual information." Zenodo doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6331810
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- Andrew Mitchell. (2023) "Soundscapy."
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2022
- Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Christopher Soelitsyo, Tin Oberman, and Francesco Aletta. (2022) "DeLTA (Deep Learning Techniques for noise Annoyance detection) Dataset." Zenodo doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.7158056
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- Andrew Mitchell. (2022) "Predictive Modelling of Complex Urban Soundscapes - Enabling an engineering approach to soundscape design." University College London
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2021
- Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, and et. al. (2021) "The International Soundscape Database: An integrated multimedia database of urban soundscape surveys – questionnaires with acoustical and contextual information." Zenodo doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5578572
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2020
- Mercede Erfanian, Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, and Jian Kang. (2020) "Psychological Well-being, Age and Gender can Mediate Soundscapes Pleasantness and Eventfulness: A large sample study." doi: 10.1101/2020.10.16.341834
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