Publication details
Využití techniky focusingu při zkoumání vlivu zvukového prostředí města na prožitek
| Title in English | Applying the focusing technique to the research on experience of urban sonic environment |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The predominating tradition of sonic environment research reduces sonic environment to information about its noisiness and its emotional content to a general reaction called annoyance. This study aims at mapping the phenomenological categories used by people to describe their experience in relation to urban sonic environment. On this basis, it tries to answer a question whether the reduction to a unipolar dimension of annoyance is adequate or not. As an experience capturing method, a modification of the E. Gendlin's psychotherapeutic technique of focusing was used. Its purpose is to obtain data that reflect the experienced (in-the-body-grounded) meanings related to the sonic environment as much as possible, and are affected by intellectual elaboration, associations etc. as little as possible. |