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aboratory study on the annoyance of UAS-noise (Unmanned Aircraft System)

Conditions
Healthy test person
Registration Number
DRKS00027472
Lead Sponsor
DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
58
Inclusion Criteria

at least 18 years old
- male, female or diverse
- normal hearing according to age
- presence of the signed declaration of consent
- sufficient knowledge of the German language
- recovered from COVID-19 or fully vaccinated (2G rule)
- willingness to wear a FFP2 mask during the whole experiment

Exclusion Criteria

- Hearing loss in the audiogram: i.e., hearing thresholds in the better ear are higher than the 10th percentile of the gender- and age-specific hearing thresholds in ISO 7029 (2017).
- Wearing a hearing aid
- Hearing disorders (tinnitus, hearing loss within the last 10 years)
- any other condition which, in the opinion of the physicians performing the test, makes the subject unsuitable for the test
- any medication with influence on the test parameters or consumption of stimulants and drugs with influence on the examination parameters, e.g. drug consumption, increased alcohol consumption and nicotine consumption, which does not allow at least 10 hours of abstinence
- not legally competent, as well as limited legally competent persons
- not able to speak the German language
- persons not immunized against COVID-19 (i.e. not vaccinated or recovered)
- presence of a positive COVID-19 self-test
- intolerance of the FFP2 mask or unwillingness to wear a FFP2 mask during the entire trial to wear a FFP2 mask during the entire experiment.

Study & Design

Study Type
observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The key outcome measure according to the primary hypothesis is the probability of being acutely highly annoyed (%HA) by LAeq from drones in hover.
Secondary Outcome Measures
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Due to the different noise generation of a drone during overflight, the likelihood of being acutely highly annoyed by drone overflights is also investigated by the SEL. Since the acceptance and pleasantness of noise was recorded in most of the laboratory studies, these psychological target variables should also be recorded here in order to ensure comparability of the results. <br>be recorded to ensure comparability of results. Therefore, the <br>Probability of acceptance and pleasantness due to increasing LAeq<br>of drones in hover phases and by the increasing SEL of drone overflights will be determined. In addition, the influence of drone type, operating altitude as well as speed (only for overflights) on the subjective perceptions (annoyance, acceptance and pleasantness) will be exploratively investigated.<br><br>
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