People needed for web-based audio experiment

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

09/02/2009 03:36:11 PM · #1

I am a Master's Student at Stellenbosch University doing research on spatial audio and I require subjects to do a web-based auditory experiment. The experiment only requires a browser with Flash installed and stereo headphones (the experiment will not work with loudspeakers). Link to the experiment. The experiment should only take about 10 minutes to do and all the assistance that I can get is helpful :) Feel free to spread the link around.

-Konrad

Apple iPhone 5

09/02/2009 06:24:14 PM · #2

I did 5 tests before the OCD kicked in.

Good luck with the research!

poser

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

09/02/2009 06:58:54 PM · #3

I did all 10 that was cool to do.

cdrice

Nikon D7000

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

09/02/2009 06:59:34 PM · #4

That was fun! Did 12 before I found my mind wandering. The first white noise test scared the crap out of me -- didn't expect that!

I don't know if there is a way you can configure the flash player, but I found that mine would periodically go into "buffering" right in the middle of playback. It might be nice to configure it to wait for the entire sample to load before playback starts if possible.

BeefnCheez

Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

09/02/2009 07:09:09 PM · #5

Did my meaningful 10. Best side comments:

steam boats challenged the wilderness
Contracted by contact
said to fall among the invaders
stared at the face of the dead man

jotaga

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

09/02/2009 09:47:38 PM · #6

I did just three...

SO hard to understand another language on that audio mess!!! I gave up because i think that my tests would distort the analisys...

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

09/04/2009 07:30:40 AM · #7

Thank you to everyone who has done the experiment so far.

Originally posted by cdrice:

I don't know if there is a way you can configure the flash player, but I found that mine would periodically go into "buffering" right in the middle of playback. It might be nice to configure it to wait for the entire sample to load before playback starts if possible.

The player is supposed to buffer 5 seconds of audio before playback (longer than the sample in most cases) and I will look into why it is not doing this correctly.

paynekj

Pentax K10D

09/04/2009 08:25:46 AM · #8

I did 12 but I think you need many more questions at the start to cope with variations due to nationality etc. Being a native English speaker is likely to make a big difference and there may even be a difference between British English speakers and American English speakers.

09/09/2009 06:31:59 PM · #9

Originally posted by paynekj:

The level of English (or nationality) that a person possesses will make a difference in the results, but they should be consistent across the various presentation modes.

NikonJeb

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

09/09/2009 08:35:25 PM · #10

I gave up after two tests because I just plain cannot make out anything.....it's all run together for me.

I have extraordinary hearing in some instances, but this test hasd proven beyond a doubt that I cannot differentiate background noise! LOL!!!

09/10/2009 03:06:31 AM · #11

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

The presentation mode and number of maskers that you get on each test is randomised and in order to test the thresholds of the various presentation methods I designed the experiment so that some cases are extremely easy and that others are next to impossible. It is highly likely that the two tests you pulled came from the difficult cases.

09/16/2009 08:49:25 AM · #12

I have other experiment up and running. The experiment is similar to the first and the procedure is exactly the same. Headphones mandatory as before. If you have some time to spare please help me in my MScEng research by doing the experiment. For me to get meaningful data you need to do at least 10 runs (which should take about 10 minutes). Some of the test cases are meant to be almost impossible to follow as I wish to test the limits of the encoding methods, so do not feel discouraged if some of the runs are very unintelligible.

Link to the experiment.

Thanks,
Konrad

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

09/24/2009 08:44:00 AM · #13

bump

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

09/24/2009 09:18:38 AM · #14

I'll try it on the morning when it's quieter here. ;-Þ

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

09/24/2009 11:13:00 PM · #15

Yep, the white noisy ones were the hardest.

FireBird

09/25/2009 02:21:11 AM · #16

Maybe I'm too old. Total and complete mangled audio crap. Nothing resembling the selections given was heard by my ears. Maybe I'll try again with the phones reversed but I'm pretty sure they were aligned properly.
Maybe there were some instructions I didn't see?????

Went back and did 10, only 3 runs did I get most of the set commands. Weird. I hope this isn't the basis of a new voice codec for cell phones. I won't be able to hear a damn thing!!!!

Message edited by author 2009-09-25 02:37:33.