Whenever the acoustical design of vehicles is supposed to be explored the crucial question about the appropriate method of evaluation arises. Researches show that not only acoustic but also nonacoustic parameters have a major influence on the way sounds are evaluated. Therefore, new methods of evaluation have to be implemented. Those new methods have to give the opportunity to test the quality of the given ambience and to register the effects and evaluations in their functional interdependence as well as the influence of personal and contextual factors. Moreover, new methods have to give insight into processes of evaluation and their contextual parameters. In other words, the task of evaluating acoustical ambiences consists of designating a set of social, psychological and cultural conditions which are important to determine particular individual and collective behavior, attitudes and also emotions relative to the given ambience. However, no specific recommendations exist yet which comprise particular descriptions of how to assess those specific sound effects. That is why there is a need to develop alternative methods of evaluation with whose help effects of acoustical ambiences can be better predicted. A method of evaluation will be presented which incorporates a new sensitive approach for the evaluation of vehicle sounds.
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