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Prof. Massimiliano Masullo
Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

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Associate professor of Building Physics at the Departement of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Neapolitan, master in mechanical engineer at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”. Master in Acoustics and Noise Control at the Second University of Naples. He carries out his main research activities in environmental psychoacoustics and multisensory perception with particular attention to aspects related to human well-being and multisensory interaction. Head of the SENS i-Lab, the multisensory laboratory of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Principal investigator and member of several national and international research projects. Author of more than 125 national and international scientific publications. Member of scientific committees and coordinator for structured sessions at national and international conferences in acoustics. Reviewer for several international scientific journals on acoustics, the environment and energy

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Journal article
Published: 28 August 2021 in Energies
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The heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system serving the test room of the SENS i-Lab of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Aversa, south of Italy) has been experimentally investigated through a series of tests performed during both summer and winter under both normal and faulty scenarios. In particular, five distinct typical faults have been artificially implemented in the HVAC system and analyzed during transient and steady-state operation. An optimal artificial neural network-based system model has been created in the MATLAB platform and verified by contrasting the experimental data with the predictions of twenty-two different neural network architectures. The selected artificial neural network architecture has been coupled with a dynamic simulation model developed by using the TRaNsient SYStems (TRNSYS) software platform with the main aims of (i) making available an experimental dataset characterized by labeled normal and faulty data covering a wide range of operating and climatic conditions; (ii) providing an accurate simulation tool able to generate operation data for assisting further research in fault detection and diagnosis of HVAC units; and (iii) evaluating the impact of selected faults on occupant indoor thermo-hygrometric comfort, temporal trends of key operating system parameters, and electric energy consumptions.

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Antonio Rosato; Francesco Guarino; Sergio Sibilio; Evgueniy Entchev; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei. Healthy and Faulty Experimental Performance of a Typical HVAC System under Italian Climatic Conditions: Artificial Neural Network-Based Model and Fault Impact Assessment. Energies 2021, 14, 5362 .

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Antonio Rosato, Francesco Guarino, Sergio Sibilio, Evgueniy Entchev, Massimiliano Masullo, Luigi Maffei. Healthy and Faulty Experimental Performance of a Typical HVAC System under Italian Climatic Conditions: Artificial Neural Network-Based Model and Fault Impact Assessment. Energies. 2021; 14 (17):5362.

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Antonio Rosato; Francesco Guarino; Sergio Sibilio; Evgueniy Entchev; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei. 2021. "Healthy and Faulty Experimental Performance of a Typical HVAC System under Italian Climatic Conditions: Artificial Neural Network-Based Model and Fault Impact Assessment." Energies 14, no. 17: 5362.

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Published: 26 July 2021 in Sustainability
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Road traffic noise is responsible for several negative health effects for citizens in modern cities. Inside urban parks, which citizens use for social inclusion and cohesion, psychological and physical restoration, and physical activities, road traffic noise may significantly reduce the potential of these places to induce or enhance well-being. Although access restriction schemes and screens could be effective solutions to limit noise inside urban park areas, preserving their potential regenerative role may engender mobility, social, aesthetic, and architectural issues. Due to the positive effects that natural elements and water sounds can have on human perception, and based on the previous findings of the beneficial effects of audio-visual installations, this paper investigates the possibility of using audio-visual installations that simply evoke some natural features to improve the restoration of individuals inside urban parks. The study has been carried out using immersive virtual environments in two different experimental laboratory sessions in Hong Kong (China) and Aversa (Italy). The results showed that the positive effects provided by evocative installations were similar to those provided by traditional installations. Furthermore, the effects on the restoration increased as the installations became larger and included enveloping shapes. Furthermore, we found that the amount of evocative water installations’ material was responsible for changes in restoration. In contrast, the Chinese groups were less influenced by these installations.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Aniello Pascale; Vincenzo Senese; Simona De Stefano; Chi Chau. Effects of Evocative Audio-Visual Installations on the Restorativeness in Urban Parks. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8328 .

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Massimiliano Masullo, Luigi Maffei, Aniello Pascale, Vincenzo Senese, Simona De Stefano, Chi Chau. Effects of Evocative Audio-Visual Installations on the Restorativeness in Urban Parks. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8328.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Aniello Pascale; Vincenzo Senese; Simona De Stefano; Chi Chau. 2021. "Effects of Evocative Audio-Visual Installations on the Restorativeness in Urban Parks." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8328.

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Published: 10 July 2021 in Applied Acoustics
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Assessing the emotional impact that sounds have on individuals is of fundamental importance. In fact, individuals might choose a particular environment, such as a square or a green urban park, by also considering how positively or negatively the acoustic characteristics of that environment make them feel. However, at the moment, no questionnaire allows to reliably and clearly assess the emotional salience of sounds; that is how positively and negatively a sound is perceived by individuals. Therefore, in the present work, we developed and compared two different questionnaires (A and B) focused on how the sound is affectively assessed (e.g. pleasant, calm) and how it makes people feel (e.g. happy, sad, energetic). The two questionnaires differ mainly in their first part, where Questionnaire A was built starting from the circumplex model of soundscape perception, whereas Questionnaire B was created by focusing on the emotional dimension of sounds. The questionnaires were administered to two different groups of participants. Principal component analysis and reliability analysis showed that Questionnaire B was able to capture more reliably and clearly the Positive and Negative dimensions of the sound than questionnaire A. The implications of these results are discussed in light of recent indications about the need to assess in a clear, reliable and straightforward way the impact of the sound environment on humans.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Tina Iachini; Mariachiara Rapuano; Federico Cioffi; Gennaro Ruggiero; Francesco Ruotolo. A questionnaire investigating the emotional salience of sounds. Applied Acoustics 2021, 182, 108281 .

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Massimiliano Masullo, Luigi Maffei, Tina Iachini, Mariachiara Rapuano, Federico Cioffi, Gennaro Ruggiero, Francesco Ruotolo. A questionnaire investigating the emotional salience of sounds. Applied Acoustics. 2021; 182 ():108281.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Tina Iachini; Mariachiara Rapuano; Federico Cioffi; Gennaro Ruggiero; Francesco Ruotolo. 2021. "A questionnaire investigating the emotional salience of sounds." Applied Acoustics 182, no. : 108281.

Review
Published: 10 July 2021 in Sensors
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The so-called Internet of Things (IoT), which is rapidly increasing the number of network-connected and interconnected objects, could have a far-reaching impact in identifying the link between human health, well-being, and environmental concerns. In line with the IoT concept, many commercial wearables have been introduced in recent years, which differ from the usual devices in that they use the term “smart” alongside the terms “watches”, “glasses”, and “jewellery”. Commercially available wearables aim to enhance smartphone functionality by enabling payment for commercial items or monitoring physical activity. However, what is the trend of scientific production about the concept of wearables regarding environmental monitoring issues? What are the main areas of interest covered by scientific production? What are the main findings and limitations of the developed solution in this field? The methodology used to answer the above questions is based on a systematic review. The data were acquired following a reproducible methodology. The main result is that, among the thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality environmental factors, the last one is the most considered when using wearables even though in combination with some others. Another relevant finding is that of the acquired studies; in only one, the authors shared their wearables as an open-source device, and it will probably be necessary to encourage researchers to consider open-source as a means to promote scalability and proliferation of new wearables customized to cover different domains.

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Francesco Salamone; Massimiliano Masullo; Sergio Sibilio. Wearable Devices for Environmental Monitoring in the Built Environment: A Systematic Review. Sensors 2021, 21, 4727 .

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Francesco Salamone, Massimiliano Masullo, Sergio Sibilio. Wearable Devices for Environmental Monitoring in the Built Environment: A Systematic Review. Sensors. 2021; 21 (14):4727.

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Francesco Salamone; Massimiliano Masullo; Sergio Sibilio. 2021. "Wearable Devices for Environmental Monitoring in the Built Environment: A Systematic Review." Sensors 21, no. 14: 4727.

Journal article
Published: 08 July 2021 in Noise & Vibration Worldwide
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Previous evidence has shown that exposure to urban noise negatively influences some cognitive abilities (i.e. verbal fluency and delayed recall of prose memory) of people in indoor spaces. However, long-standing literature in the cognitive domain has reported that men and women can show different performance on cognitive tasks. Here, we aimed to investigate if and how different patterns of perceived urban noises in indoor environments could affect male and female participants’ cognitive abilities. Ambisonic sound recordings representing scenarios with varying noise patterns (low, medium and high variability) were acquired with an open window at three dwellings in a southern Italian city. As a control condition, the recordings were caught inside a quiet room. While exposed to theses four auditory conditions, participants had to perform cognitive tasks assessing free verbal memory recall, auditory–verbal recognition and working memory. The results show that male and female participants have a different tolerance to noise patterns. Women overperform men on verbal tasks, while the contrary effect emerges with men outperforming women on visuospatial working memory tasks.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Gennaro Ruggiero; Daniel Alvarez Fernandez; Tina Iachini; Luigi Maffei. Effects of urban noise variability on cognitive abilities in indoor spaces: Gender differences. Noise & Vibration Worldwide 2021, 1 .

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Massimiliano Masullo, Gennaro Ruggiero, Daniel Alvarez Fernandez, Tina Iachini, Luigi Maffei. Effects of urban noise variability on cognitive abilities in indoor spaces: Gender differences. Noise & Vibration Worldwide. 2021; ():1.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Gennaro Ruggiero; Daniel Alvarez Fernandez; Tina Iachini; Luigi Maffei. 2021. "Effects of urban noise variability on cognitive abilities in indoor spaces: Gender differences." Noise & Vibration Worldwide , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 17 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Growing tourist flows, which crowd ancient city centres, have modified their liveability and threatened conservation. They have increased the need for quiet places, primarily where green parks are missing. While previous studies have highlighted the possibility of reusing hidden sites of historical buildings, it is not clear if this scheme can also be applied in other contexts, and which physical or perceptual dimensions are mainly related to the restoration of these sites. If greenery and water elements induce positive effects on people’s well-being, we want to understand if the historical–artistic component can be just as important for people’s restorativeness. To this end, the physical and perceptual characteristics of 20 different sites in Naples and Istanbul were investigated through objective and subjective surveys. The results show that the sound levels inside sites cannot consistently account for the perception of the restorativeness in Italy and Turkey, while some sound level differences caused by outside noise could. Moreover, soundscape, appreciation, maintenance/management, and importance/relevance were the main perceptual dimensions describing these places. The importance/relevance dimension was strongly correlated with all the components of the restorativeness, especially with the fascination. These findings are consistent between the Italian and Turkish groups.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Asli Ozcevik Bilen; Roxana Toma; Gulsen Akin Guler; Luigi Maffei. The Restorativeness of Outdoor Historical Sites in Urban Areas: Physical and Perceptual Correlations. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5603 .

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Massimiliano Masullo, Asli Ozcevik Bilen, Roxana Toma, Gulsen Akin Guler, Luigi Maffei. The Restorativeness of Outdoor Historical Sites in Urban Areas: Physical and Perceptual Correlations. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5603.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Asli Ozcevik Bilen; Roxana Toma; Gulsen Akin Guler; Luigi Maffei. 2021. "The Restorativeness of Outdoor Historical Sites in Urban Areas: Physical and Perceptual Correlations." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5603.

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Published: 26 February 2021 in Applied Acoustics
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In the last decades, the demand for air conditioning and cooling systems for buildings continues to increase, despite the awareness campaigns and the Green Policies adopted by European Countries. The adoption of such policies is dictated by climate change, and by the will to reduce GHG emissions and increase the use of energy from renewable sources. Among all the different air conditioning systems, the split systems represent most Room Air Conditioners (RAC) units installed in Europe. Their integration with the buildings of historical centres is not successful due to the sound emissions of external units and their visual impact on buildings' facades. The acoustic and the visual impact are evaluated separately, by comparing the results of outdoor noise prediction models with noise limits levels at receivers or using local regulations. A virtual reality environment has been prepared to carry out a laboratory experiment to understand better how Air Conditioning (AC) split units affect the residents' overall perceptions. This paper investigates the combined (auditory and visual) impacts of installing external units of split systems on historical buildings' facades. By combining different Visual Aspects and Noise Levels, the noise annoyance and other perceptual attributes of the environment have been studied. Main conclusions suggest that visual elements more integrated on the façade of the historical building can help reduce the auditory and the visual impact of these elements. Moreover, well-integrated and pleasant elements led to a lower auditory perception of the loudness and noise annoyance than less integrated elements.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Rossana Pellegrino; Michelangelo Scorpio; Luigi Maffei. Auditory and visual impact of split systems on the façade of historical buildings. Applied Acoustics 2021, 178, 107997 .

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Massimiliano Masullo, Rossana Pellegrino, Michelangelo Scorpio, Luigi Maffei. Auditory and visual impact of split systems on the façade of historical buildings. Applied Acoustics. 2021; 178 ():107997.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Rossana Pellegrino; Michelangelo Scorpio; Luigi Maffei. 2021. "Auditory and visual impact of split systems on the façade of historical buildings." Applied Acoustics 178, no. : 107997.

Journal article
Published: 24 July 2020 in Energies
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More and more cities are evolving into smart cities, increasing their attractiveness, energy efficiency, and users’ satisfaction. Lighting systems play an important role in the evolution process, thanks to their ability to affect city life at night along with people’s mood and behaviour. In this scenario, advanced lighting design methods such as virtual reality (VR) became essential to assess lighting systems from different points of view, especially those linked with the city users’ expectations. Initially, the review highlights a list of objective and subjective parameters to be considered for the lighting design of three main city areas/applications: roads, green areas and buildings. Besides, the state-of-art in using VR for outdoor lighting design is established. Finally, the Unreal game engine is used to analyse the ability of VR to take into account the lighting parameters, not yet investigated in current literature and to highlight the VR potential for augmenting lighting design. The results confirm the benefit of using VR in lighting design, even if further investigations are needed to establish its reliability, especially from the photometrical point of view.

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Michelangelo Scorpio; Roberta Laffi; Massimiliano Masullo; Giovanni Ciampi; Antonio Rosato; Luigi Maffei; Sergio Sibilio. Virtual Reality for Smart Urban Lighting Design: Review, Applications and Opportunities. Energies 2020, 13, 3809 .

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Michelangelo Scorpio, Roberta Laffi, Massimiliano Masullo, Giovanni Ciampi, Antonio Rosato, Luigi Maffei, Sergio Sibilio. Virtual Reality for Smart Urban Lighting Design: Review, Applications and Opportunities. Energies. 2020; 13 (15):3809.

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Michelangelo Scorpio; Roberta Laffi; Massimiliano Masullo; Giovanni Ciampi; Antonio Rosato; Luigi Maffei; Sergio Sibilio. 2020. "Virtual Reality for Smart Urban Lighting Design: Review, Applications and Opportunities." Energies 13, no. 15: 3809.

Journal article
Published: 05 June 2020 in Sustainability
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The feeling of calm and tranquillity provided by the oases of Algeria can disappear because of the outdated urbanization strategy which is based on the vehicle as a mode of transport. Walkability is one of the most adoptable sustainable strategies to reduce the negative mechanical transportation effects on the quality of life. This paper aimed to examine the correlation and the causation between oases soundscape components and walking speed. The methodology of this field study was based on an empirical approach at the urban settlements in three oases in Algeria. The correlation between walking speed and soundscape components was obtained through the use of the Spearman correlation test. A one-way ANOVA analysis was conducted to assess the effect of the soundscape components on walking speed. A post hoc Tukey test was adopted to explore the sound component that causes increased walking speed. In this study, no significant correlation was explored between the walking speed and the anthrophonical sounds. In contrast, the statistical analysis of the sound walks experience suggests a moderate and significant negative correlation between geophonical and biophonical sounds, with mean walking speed. The results showed that, the cause of the increase in the mean walking speed of the pedestrians is human sound. The findings suggest that further research is needed to focus on the long-term subjective investigation to explore the correlations and the effects between soundscape, walkability and walking speed.

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Djihed Berkouk; Tallal Abdel Karim Bouzir; Luigi Maffei; Massimiliano Masullo. Examining the Associations between Oases Soundscape Components and Walking Speed: Correlation or Causation? Sustainability 2020, 12, 4619 .

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Djihed Berkouk, Tallal Abdel Karim Bouzir, Luigi Maffei, Massimiliano Masullo. Examining the Associations between Oases Soundscape Components and Walking Speed: Correlation or Causation? Sustainability. 2020; 12 (11):4619.

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Djihed Berkouk; Tallal Abdel Karim Bouzir; Luigi Maffei; Massimiliano Masullo. 2020. "Examining the Associations between Oases Soundscape Components and Walking Speed: Correlation or Causation?" Sustainability 12, no. 11: 4619.

Journal article
Published: 04 April 2020 in Sustainability
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Searching for renovating and/or constructing quiet areas in historical urban sites, along with the conservation and valorization policies of the tangible and intangible value of historic urban sites are goals that can be combined into a unique sustainable strategy for the preservation of the sense of place and identity of communities as well as their well-being. Historic cloisters and courtyards are examples of such sites. Due to their physical, architectural, environmental and cultural features, they present restorative capabilities that could qualify them as quite areas. This paper aims to establish a new procedure that, through the exploration and analysis of past and current aspects of these sites, makes it possible to classify them and understand whether they still preserve a restorative character. A graphic representation, obtained from a historical analysis and an objective description of past and current historical/architectural, environmental and cultural scenarios, has been used. The results were compared with those of the Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS-11). A diamond shape represents highly restorative sites, while deviations from this shape were found to be weakly correlated with a restorative nature. This has also been shown by the high positive correlation of analytical parameters with the PRS-11 score and, in particular, with the component of Fascination.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Francesca Castanò; Roxana Adina Toma; Luigi Maffei. Historical Cloisters and Courtyards as Quiet Areas. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2887 .

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Massimiliano Masullo, Francesca Castanò, Roxana Adina Toma, Luigi Maffei. Historical Cloisters and Courtyards as Quiet Areas. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (7):2887.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Francesca Castanò; Roxana Adina Toma; Luigi Maffei. 2020. "Historical Cloisters and Courtyards as Quiet Areas." Sustainability 12, no. 7: 2887.

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Published: 10 July 2018 in Building and Environment
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Sound, together with other sensory impressions, contributes to the perceived quality of the global environment, and influences human experience of the place. This study investigates how shared-street design and traffic restriction, two widely used street management measures in urban areas, influence urban soundscape and human experience of the place, by asking: 1) Do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve the urban soundscape? 2) In different street management scenarios, how relevant is the soundscape to human experience of the place? By means of an online virtual reality application, two street-design scenarios and two traffic-restriction scenarios were simulated, and a task-based online survey was carried out to obtain participants' responses to the simulated virtual scenarios. The results show that shared-street design made the soundscape calmer and traffic restriction made the soundscape more pleasant. There was also potential interaction between shared-street design and traffic restriction that shared-street design might lead to changes in soundscape pleasantness depending on traffic restriction. High relevance of soundscape to human experience of the place is indicated, that peoples' perception of the acoustic environment and preferences for the acoustic environmental elements contributed to their preferences for places. However, the relevance might be relatively lower in shared-street scenarios.

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Like Jiang; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Fanyu Meng; Michael Vorländer. How do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve urban soundscape and human experience? —An online survey with virtual reality. Building and Environment 2018, 143, 318 -328.

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Like Jiang, Massimiliano Masullo, Luigi Maffei, Fanyu Meng, Michael Vorländer. How do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve urban soundscape and human experience? —An online survey with virtual reality. Building and Environment. 2018; 143 ():318-328.

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Like Jiang; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Fanyu Meng; Michael Vorländer. 2018. "How do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve urban soundscape and human experience? —An online survey with virtual reality." Building and Environment 143, no. : 318-328.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2018 in Landscape and Urban Planning
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Like Jiang; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Fanyu Meng; Michael Vorländer. A demonstrator tool of web-based virtual reality for participatory evaluation of urban sound environment. Landscape and Urban Planning 2018, 170, 276 -282.

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Like Jiang, Massimiliano Masullo, Luigi Maffei, Fanyu Meng, Michael Vorländer. A demonstrator tool of web-based virtual reality for participatory evaluation of urban sound environment. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2018; 170 ():276-282.

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Like Jiang; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Fanyu Meng; Michael Vorländer. 2018. "A demonstrator tool of web-based virtual reality for participatory evaluation of urban sound environment." Landscape and Urban Planning 170, no. : 276-282.

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Published: 18 July 2017 in Journal of Energy Resources Technology
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The noise production from wind turbines (WT) and its propagation into the surrounding environment have an impact on the receptors (RC) that have to be accurately predicted within the environmental impact assessment. The low-frequency noise (LFN) is of special concern for it is typical of wind systems and it involves specific computational issues. The purpose of this study is to apply and compare the assessment procedures currently used in different European countries for the prediction of LFN produced by wind turbines, with reference to a specific case. The results of the calculations for a planned wind farm in northern Sardinia, Italy, obtained by the available computational tools and with the help of the presented predictive models are presented and discussed. It can be deduced from this that the impact due to the low frequencies noise generated by wind turbines in the vicinity of sensitive receptors is negligible in terms of generated sound pressure levels (SPLs), even though further investigations on such a topic are needed.

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Martino Marini; Roberto Baccoli; Costantino C. Mastino; Antonino Di Bella; Carlo Bernardini; Massimiliano Masullo. Assessment of the Noise Generated by Wind Turbines at Low Frequencies. Journal of Energy Resources Technology 2017, 139, 051215 .

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Martino Marini, Roberto Baccoli, Costantino C. Mastino, Antonino Di Bella, Carlo Bernardini, Massimiliano Masullo. Assessment of the Noise Generated by Wind Turbines at Low Frequencies. Journal of Energy Resources Technology. 2017; 139 (5):051215.

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Martino Marini; Roberto Baccoli; Costantino C. Mastino; Antonino Di Bella; Carlo Bernardini; Massimiliano Masullo. 2017. "Assessment of the Noise Generated by Wind Turbines at Low Frequencies." Journal of Energy Resources Technology 139, no. 5: 051215.

Technical note
Published: 02 December 2016 in Urban Science
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The tourist experience of built environments has received a lot of attention in tourism marketing and management research. Several studies have shown that the environmental qualities of a place can contribute to its aesthetic appreciation and overall expectation of tourists. Such aesthetic qualities, such as cenery and soundscapes, should thus be regarded as key components of tourists’ satisfaction. This study proposes that a soundscape approach could be a suitable tool in tourism management, due to its general purpose of enhancing the users’ experience of a place, taking into account the acoustic dimension of the environment. Within this framework, this paper describes the characterization of the soundscape of a pedestrian tourist route in Sorrento (Italy). For this purpose, a group of acoustics experts, architects, and planners used the soundwalk method to collect recordings and perceptual data about the sound environment along a pre-defined tourist path. The results suggest that the tourists’ perceptual construct is underpinned by both visual and aural elements contributing to soundscape appreciation.

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Francesco Aletta; Giovanni Brambilla; Luigi Maffei; Massimiliano Masullo. Urban Soundscapes: Characterization of a Pedestrian Tourist Route in Sorrento (Italy). Urban Science 2016, 1, 4 .

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Francesco Aletta, Giovanni Brambilla, Luigi Maffei, Massimiliano Masullo. Urban Soundscapes: Characterization of a Pedestrian Tourist Route in Sorrento (Italy). Urban Science. 2016; 1 (1):4.

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Francesco Aletta; Giovanni Brambilla; Luigi Maffei; Massimiliano Masullo. 2016. "Urban Soundscapes: Characterization of a Pedestrian Tourist Route in Sorrento (Italy)." Urban Science 1, no. 1: 4.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2016 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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The Europe2020 document indicates a new strategy to turn EU into a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. Governments have established several principles and priorities for growth that include sustainable development, participation, and decentralization. Participatory planning is an important tool to strengthen the legitimacy of the policy and decision making. To make this possible, decisions and design choices should be accepted and tested by the different participants of the community, stakeholders, experts and even non-experts, as ordinary citizens. The aim of the present study was to understand if acoustic and visual stimuli of an simulated environment in immersive virtual reality (IVR) were sufficiently congruent with their correspondent elements in the real context. After experiencing in real and laboratory settings, two independent groups of participants were, respectively, invited to fill out questionnaires concerning: global qualitative evaluations, coherence and familiarity for acoustic and visual stimuli. Our findings showed that modern multisensory IVR technologies can successfully represent a smart and innovative tool for enhancing the participatory planning, predicting the impact on community and their complex environment.

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Luigi Maffei; Massimiliano Masullo; Aniello Pascale; Gennaro Ruggiero; Virginia Puyana Romero. Immersive virtual reality in community planning: Acoustic and visual congruence of simulated vs real world. Sustainable Cities and Society 2016, 27, 338 -345.

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Luigi Maffei, Massimiliano Masullo, Aniello Pascale, Gennaro Ruggiero, Virginia Puyana Romero. Immersive virtual reality in community planning: Acoustic and visual congruence of simulated vs real world. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2016; 27 ():338-345.

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Luigi Maffei; Massimiliano Masullo; Aniello Pascale; Gennaro Ruggiero; Virginia Puyana Romero. 2016. "Immersive virtual reality in community planning: Acoustic and visual congruence of simulated vs real world." Sustainable Cities and Society 27, no. : 338-345.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2016 in Environmental Impact Assessment Review
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This study investigated the effect of odour on multisensory environmental evaluations of road traffic. The study aimed to answer: (1) Does odour have any effect on evaluations on noise, landscape and the overall environment? (2) How different are participants' responses to odour stimuli and are these differences influential on the evaluations? Experimental scenarios varied in three Traffic levels, three Tree screening conditions and two Odour presence conditions were designed, and presented to participants in virtual reality. Perceived Loudness, Noise Annoyance, Landscape Quality and Overall Pleasantness of each scenario were evaluated and the results were analysed. It shows that Odour presence did not have significant main effect on any of the evaluations, but has significant interactions with Traffic level on Noise Annoyance and with Tree screening on Landscape Quality, indicating the potential of odour to modulate noise and visual landscape perceptions in specific environmental content. Concerning participants' responses to odour stimuli, large differences were found in this study. However, the differences did not seem to be influential on environmental evaluations in this study. Larger samples of participants may benefit this study for more significant results of odour effect.

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Like Jiang; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei. Effect of odour on multisensory environmental evaluations of road traffic. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 2016, 60, 126 -133.

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Like Jiang, Massimiliano Masullo, Luigi Maffei. Effect of odour on multisensory environmental evaluations of road traffic. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 2016; 60 ():126-133.

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Like Jiang; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei. 2016. "Effect of odour on multisensory environmental evaluations of road traffic." Environmental Impact Assessment Review 60, no. : 126-133.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2016 in Noise Control Engineering Journal
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Over the years, different noise sources related to community noise and their potential for eliciting noise annoyance have been investigated. Despite being a very common source within the urban realm, there is a current lack of literature on the perception of noise produced by small-medium sized sources like chillers and air conditioning devices. There are relatively few studies on the influence of audiovisual factors on noise perception for such sources. The main aim of this paper was to investigate the influence of the visibility of a chiller on perceived loudness and self-reported annoyance in a common indoor environment. Furthermore, this research aimed to investigate whether the abovementioned effects persisted in the presence of a cognitive task. To this purpose, two laboratory experiments were performed by means of an immersive virtual reality (IVR) system. Results show that the distance of the chiller influenced the noise perception, while the visibility of the chiller itself does not, assuming that a visual reference context is provided. Regarding the cognitive task, it was found to reduce the mean individual ratings of both the perceived loudness and noise annoyance related to the chiller, signifying that for the investigated sound source characterized by small spectral and temporal variation, it might have inhibited the attentional listening. These findings suggest that there is room for the implementation of recommendations for the design and management of such sources in the increasingly dense built environment.

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Francesco Aletta; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Jian Kang. The effect of vision on the perception of the noise produced by a chiller in a common living environment. Noise Control Engineering Journal 2016, 64, 363 -378.

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Francesco Aletta, Massimiliano Masullo, Luigi Maffei, Jian Kang. The effect of vision on the perception of the noise produced by a chiller in a common living environment. Noise Control Engineering Journal. 2016; 64 (3):363-378.

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Francesco Aletta; Massimiliano Masullo; Luigi Maffei; Jian Kang. 2016. "The effect of vision on the perception of the noise produced by a chiller in a common living environment." Noise Control Engineering Journal 64, no. 3: 363-378.

Comparative study
Published: 06 April 2016 in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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Dosimetric measurements carried out on basketball referees have shown that whistles not only generate very high peak sound pressure levels, but also play a relevant role in determining the overall exposure to noise of the exposed subjects. Because of the peculiar geometry determined by the mutual positions of the whistle, the microphone, and the ear, experimental data cannot be directly compared with existing occupational noise exposure and/or action limits. In this article, an original methodology, which allows experimental results to be reliably compared with the aforementioned limits, is presented. The methodology is based on the use of two correction factors to compensate the effects of the position of the dosimeter microphone (fR) and of the sound source (fS). Correction factors were calculated by means of laboratory measurements for two models of whistles (Fox 40 Classic and Fox 40 Sonik) and for two head orientations (frontal and oblique).Results sho w that for peak sound pressure levels the values of fR and fS, are in the range −8.3 to −4.6 dB and −6.0 to −1.7 dB, respectively. If one considers the Sound Exposure Levels (SEL) of whistle events, the same correction factors are in the range of −8.9 to −5.3 dB and −5.4 to −1.5 dB, respectively. The application of these correction factors shows that the corrected weekly noise exposure level for referees is 80.6 dB(A), which is slightly in excess of the lower action limit of the 2003/10/EC directive, and a few dB below the Recommended Exposure Limit (REL) proposed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The corrected largest peak sound pressure level is 134.7 dB(C) which is comparable to the lower action limit of the 2003/10/EC directive, but again substantially lower than the ceiling limit of 140 dB(A) set by NIOSH.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Paolo Lenzuni; Luigi Maffei; Pietro Nataletti; Giuseppe Ciaburro; Diego Annesi; Antonio Moschetto. Assessment of noise exposure for basketball sports referees. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 2016, 13, 464 -475.

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Massimiliano Masullo, Paolo Lenzuni, Luigi Maffei, Pietro Nataletti, Giuseppe Ciaburro, Diego Annesi, Antonio Moschetto. Assessment of noise exposure for basketball sports referees. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 2016; 13 (6):464-475.

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Massimiliano Masullo; Paolo Lenzuni; Luigi Maffei; Pietro Nataletti; Giuseppe Ciaburro; Diego Annesi; Antonio Moschetto. 2016. "Assessment of noise exposure for basketball sports referees." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 13, no. 6: 464-475.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2015 in Energy Procedia
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The Europe2020 document indicates a new strategy to turn EU into a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. At local level urban planning policies may help to reach these aims. Several research works proposed the Immersive Virtual Reality as tool to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions. Nevertheless people's perception within virtual environments still needs to be verified. In this study, two groups of participants had to provide subjective measures related to the global, acoustic and visual quality of a real environment or of a multisensory reproduced version in Immersive Virtual Reality. Outcomes highlight the ecological effectiveness of this multisensory tool.

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Maffei Luigi; Masullo Massimiliano; Pascale Aniello; Ruggiero Gennaro; Puyana Romero Virginia. On the Validity of Immersive Virtual Reality as Tool for Multisensory Evaluation of Urban Spaces. Energy Procedia 2015, 78, 471 -476.

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Maffei Luigi, Masullo Massimiliano, Pascale Aniello, Ruggiero Gennaro, Puyana Romero Virginia. On the Validity of Immersive Virtual Reality as Tool for Multisensory Evaluation of Urban Spaces. Energy Procedia. 2015; 78 ():471-476.

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Maffei Luigi; Masullo Massimiliano; Pascale Aniello; Ruggiero Gennaro; Puyana Romero Virginia. 2015. "On the Validity of Immersive Virtual Reality as Tool for Multisensory Evaluation of Urban Spaces." Energy Procedia 78, no. : 471-476.

Journal article
Published: 17 April 2015 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Considering the wide growth of the wind turbine market over the last decade as well as their increasing power size, more and more potential conflicts have arisen in society due to the noise radiated by these plants. Our goal was to determine whether the annoyance caused by wind farms is related to aspects other than noise. To accomplish this, an auditory experiment on the recognition of wind turbine noise was conducted to people with long experience of wind turbine noise exposure and to people with no previous experience to this type of noise source. Our findings demonstrated that the trend of the auditory recognition is the same for the two examined groups, as far as the increase of the distance and the decrease of the values of sound equivalent levels and loudness are concerned. Significant differences between the two groups were observed as the distance increases. People with wind turbine noise experience showed a higher tendency to report false alarms than people without experience.

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Luigi Maffei; Massimiliano Masullo; Maria Di Gabriele; Nefta-Eleftheria P. Votsi; John D. Pantis; Vincenzo Paolo Senese. Auditory Recognition of Familiar and Unfamiliar Subjects with Wind Turbine Noise. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2015, 12, 4306 -4320.

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Luigi Maffei, Massimiliano Masullo, Maria Di Gabriele, Nefta-Eleftheria P. Votsi, John D. Pantis, Vincenzo Paolo Senese. Auditory Recognition of Familiar and Unfamiliar Subjects with Wind Turbine Noise. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2015; 12 (4):4306-4320.

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Luigi Maffei; Massimiliano Masullo; Maria Di Gabriele; Nefta-Eleftheria P. Votsi; John D. Pantis; Vincenzo Paolo Senese. 2015. "Auditory Recognition of Familiar and Unfamiliar Subjects with Wind Turbine Noise." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 12, no. 4: 4306-4320.