Introduction

Aim of the project:

 Exploring relationships between people’s
responses over psycacoustic signals and their
backgorunds.
 Psychoacoustics
 What is psychoacoustics?
- Field that investigates subjective human perception
of sounds

 Hearing Process
- Mechanical
- Psychological
- Emotional
 Deciding Sounds

• Matched sounds with colors in Munsell Color Wheel

SOUNDS
Sound 1: Train Sound; longer duration, cooler,
teal
Sound 2: Ding; grazing , warm, short duration,
orange
Sound 3: Rain; noisy vibes, small tremors,
dark teal
Sound 4: Birds; slower rhythm, living,
purple
Sound 5: Ocean; smooth, long duration,
olive
 Sound 6: Factory Hum; small tremors, noisy vibes,
green
 Sound 7: Pulse; smooth, fast rhythmic, warm,
dark orange
 Sound 8: Voltage; high energy, increasing repetition,
dark yellow
 Sound 9: Machine;quakes rumbles,not warm not cold,
light yellow
 Sound 10:Wind; smooth, decreasing rhythm, light
red
 Sound 11:Snore;decreasing rhythm, not warm not cold,
pink
 Sound 12:Skid Stop; noisy vibes, beating rhythms,
blue
 Sound 13:Piano; fast impulses, warm,
red
 Sound 14:White Noise; sharper attack, grazing,
light orange
 Sound 15:Drum Roll; high frequency, beating rhythm
navy
 Application Design
 Platform Decision
- Web Site or Dependent Application

 Technical Properties of Facebook™ Application

- FBML
- FQL
- Facebook Client Library
 Data Mining
 Apriori Algorithm
- Associations between attributes

 Interface
- RapidMiner
- WEKA
- Application Implementation
 Handling Datas
 Collecting Data
-Text Files
-Storing at Excel

• Classifying the Data

- Age Groups
- Education
- Gender
Implementation
Apriori Application
Problems
 Design Issues

 Server Issues

 Data Mining Tool Issues

 Data Variability Issues

Results
 Data Specifications
 205 people
 95 male, 110 female
 122 University Student or Graduate, 52 High Scho
ol Student or Graduate, 31 Primary School or
Graduate
 25 people aged between 0-12 , 30 people aged
between 13-18, 85 people aged between 19-23, 45
people aged between 24-40 and 20 people aged over
40
Similar Patterns
 Despite the different ages, gender and educational
backgrounds, people tend to find slow rhythmic and
living sounds related to peace. Another outcome is
that, people generally tend to respond high frequency
and beating rhythms as joyful and happy.
Different Patterns
 People aged between 0-12 are tend to find quake
rumbles related to fear and anxiety, while people who
are aged 13-18 and 19-23 are tend to find same sounds
disturbing.
References
 Zwicker,E. & Fastl, H.(1999) Psychoacoustics: facts
and models Berlin; New York: Springer
 Meyer, L. B. (1956) Emotion and Meaning in Music
Essex: Phoenix Books
 Gelfand, S. A. (1998) Hearing: an introduction to
psychological and physiological acoustics New York
Marcel Dekker
 Facebook Features. (n.d.). Retrieved January 20,2009,
from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_features
 Chang A., & O’Sullivan C. (2008) An Audio - Haptic
Aesthetic Framework Influenced by Visual Theory
 Munsell Color System (n.d.) Retrieved April 5 2009
from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell
Thanks to Yücel Saygın