Enhancing the park experience by giving visitors control over the park’s soundscape

Sound pollution is an ever growing problem in modern society, and especially urban environments. In this paper, we investigate if how artificial sounds can improve the experience of visitors park with a lot traffic noise. By using mobile app, control sound playback by selecting natural they like, such as birds or waterfall, setting volume. This process adding to existing environment results augmented soundscape. Comparison without showed that most improvement enjoy controlling sounds. An experiment 165 users identified various correlations between visitors’ subjective evaluations objective measures their usage behavior number interactions spent time.