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Pursuing Listeners’ Perceptual Response in Audio-Visual Interactions – Headphones vs Loudspeakers: A Case Study

Mróz Bartłomiej, Kostek Bożena

Archives of Acoustics

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2022

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Vol. 47, No. 1

71--79

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This study investigates listeners’ perceptual responses in audio-visual interactions concerning binaural spatial audio. Audio stimuli are coupled with or without visual cues to the listeners. The subjective test participants are tasked to indicate the direction of the incoming sound while listening to the audio stimulus via loudspeakers or headphones with the head-related transfer function (HRTF) plugin. First, the methodology assumptions and the experimental setup are described to the participants. Then, the results are presented and analysed using statistical methods. The results indicate that the headphone trials showed much higher perceptual ambiguity for the listeners than when the sound is delivered via loudspeakers. The influence of the visual modality dominates the audio-visual evaluation when loudspeaker playback is employed. Moreover, when the visual stimulus is present, the headphone playback pattern of behavior is not always in response to the loudspeaker playback.

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Occupancy of tourist accommodation establishments in Poland – comparison of 2019, the period of COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent months of 2020

Nocoń Marek, Sondel Krzysztof, Mróz Bartłomiej, Jurzak Lucyna

Geography and Tourism

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2021

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Vol. 9, No. 1

83--94

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The paper aims to present changes in terms of the use of tourist accommodation establishments in Poland in 2020 as compared to the year preceding the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus primarily on the desk research method, analysing in detail the news releases presented by Statistics Poland (Central Statistical Office) in relation to the subject of the article. The authors obtained answers to the posed research questions. The main conclusion of the article is that the use of tourist accommodation facilities in Poland decreased drastically after the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, which was most noticeable in voivodeships featuring high density of accommodation facilities.

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Management of the National Parks in the context of cooperation with the local stakeholders

Walas Bartłomiej, Łabaj Marek, Mróz Bartłomiej, Košek Magdalena

Geography and Tourism

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2021

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Vol. 9, No. 1

21--32

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When searching for an optimal model for managing National Parks in Poland, especially in view of the planned modification of the law, it is necessary to assess attitudes and expectations between local stakeholder groups. Surveys conducted in 2020 made it possible to collect the opinions of representatives of the parks’ surroundings and their employees on the subject of relations between parks and the socio-economic environment. The obtained results positively verified the hypothesis that nature protection policy requires changes to the management of the National Parks through effective legal and financial instruments, including those generating consensus of benefits for the local economy and stakeholders, while maintaining the objectives of environmental protection.