IMPRINtS - Internet and Mobile technologies for a Public Role In Noise Surveying

音景和风景一样，在我们的生活中扮演着重要的角色。就像从办公室或卧室窗户看到的风景一样，音景可以让我们感到舒适、高效和快乐，也可以让我们感到不安和分心。在我们的环境中总会有一些噪音，可能是树叶的沙沙声、电脑的嗡嗡声、邻居的嘈杂声，或者我们在日常生活中听到的许多其他声音。如果没有音景，我们的生活将缺乏有助于提高生活质量的语境参考；不过很明显，受欢迎的日常喧嚣和烦人的噪音之间只有一线之隔。如何取得平衡对规划、开发和建设都是一个挑战，对我们每个人如何度过每一天也是一个挑战。传统上，专业人员使用昂贵的专用设备来测量和评估噪音问题。这个项目的意图是利用手机和电脑，让大量的人参与到噪声测量和评估中，从而让公众更积极地参与到他们的声景的塑造中。通过向公众提供工具，使他们能够进行噪音测量，可以进行上游参与，因为公众可以从开发过程的一开始就更多地参与到噪音问题中来。与曼彻斯特SEPOINT公司合作，IMPRINtS项目的技术和程序将在学校通过让学生参与与环境科学有关的关键阶段4活动来开发。如今，移动电话可以成为一种相当复杂的声音采样和分析设备，许多人都有连接到互联网的个人电脑。IMPRINtS项目旨在以一种既新颖又能够收集前所未有的大量重要环境噪声数据的方式利用这些新技术。在开发过程中，学生将进行实际实验，利用手机上的IMPRINTs软件和其他录音设备来调查他们的日常音景及其与之的关系。这个阶段将允许对软件和网站进行形成性评估，从而使改进成为可能。然后，IMPRINtS将通过让人们参与一项全国性的大型调查来衡量和描述英国各种各样的音景，从而提高公众对音景和我们与它们之间关系的认识。一项宣传活动将在全国媒体上发起，以吸引参与者。进入“印记”网站的市民可以免费下载软件，安装在他们的手机和个人电脑上。该软件将允许参与者采样和分析在日常生活中扮演重要角色的各种音景。所有IMPRINtS要求的是用户在一些建议的时间制作一系列不同的建议音景样本，并上传到IMPRINtS中央服务器。IMPRINtS将通过一些简单的在线问卷，询问参与者对这些音景的印象，以及这些音景对他们生活质量的影响。全国调查活动的结果将在网上和全国媒体上公布。将提供有关环境噪音问题的网上资料，以及市民如何影响环境（例如参与城市规划）。

Summary Soundscapes, like landscapes, have and important role in our lives. Just like a view from an office or bedroom window, a soundscape can help make us feel comfortable, productive and happy or make us feel uneasy and distracted. There will always be some noise in our environment, be it the rustle of leaves, humming PCs, noisy neighbours or the many other sounds we hear in our daily lives. Without soundscapes our lives would lack the contextual references that help contribute to the quality of our lives; though clearly there's fine line between welcome everyday bustle and noise nuisance. Getting the balance right is a challenge for planning, development and construction, and a challenge for how we as individuals choose to spend each day. Traditionally, professionals are used to measure and assess noise issues using expensive and dedicated equipment. It is the intention of this project to exploit mobile phones and computers to allow a large number of people to engage in noise measurement and assessment, and so give the public a more active role in how their soundscape is shaped. By giving the public the tools to enable them to make noise measurements, it is possible for upstream engagement to be carried out because the public can be more involved in the noise issues from the begining of, say, a development process. In corporation with SEPOINT Manchester, the technologies and procedures of the IMPRINtS project will be developed in schools by engaging students in Key Stage 4 activities relating to environmental science. Nowadays mobile phones can be quite a sophisticated sound sampling and analysing devices, and many people have access to PCs linked to the internet. The IMPRINtS project seeks to exploit these new technologies in a way that is both novel and capable of gathering an unprecedented amount of important environmental noise data. During the development, students will follow practical experiments that utilise IMPRINTs software on mobile phones alongside other sound recording devices to investigate their daily soundscape and their relationship with it. This stage will allow the formative evaluation of the software and website and so enable improvements to be made. Then, IMPRINtS will raise public awareness of soundscapes and our relationship to them by engaging people in a large national survey to measure and characterise the huge variety of soundscapes in Britain. A publicity campaign will be launched in the national media to get participants. Members of the public who come to the IMPRINtS web site will be able to download free software to install on their mobile phone and PCs. The software will allow participants to sample and analyse the variety of soundscapes that play an important role in their everyday lives. All IMPRINtS asks is that users make a series samples of different suggested soundscapes at some suggested times are upload to the IMPRINtS central server. IMPRINtS will ask, via some simple online questionnaires, about the participants own impressions of these soundscapes and the features of them that contribute or detract from the quality of their lives. The results of the national survey event will be published online and in the national media. Online material on issues of environment noise and also ways for the public to influence their environment e.g. via involvement with urban planning will be provided.