報知音音色與家電間產品之關聯性研究

A Study on the Relationship between Home Electric Appliances and Tone of Auditory Signal

陳韻帆(Yun-fan Chen)

指導教授 ： 涂永祥

大同大學/設計學院/工業設計學系所/碩士(2010年)

摘要

本研究主要為了解何種家電適合何種音色的報知音。以家電使用習慣問卷調查受測者對於家電報知音的主觀了解，及家中電器使用狀況，篩選出適當的家電5種（冷氣/電鍋/洗衣機/微波爐/飲水機），做為研究報知音的目標家電。再由文獻探討篩選出可能適合目標家電的樣本報知音10種（卡林巴琴/高音木琴/單簧管/鋸齒波/馬林巴木琴/西塔琴/明亮鋼琴/矩形波/鋼鼓/三味線），詢問受測者每種音色與各家電的匹配度，以及判斷匹配度的印象依據，及對樣本音的喜好度。
家電使用習慣問卷回收91份，家中可能會在昏暗中操作的家電有冷氣、電扇、冰箱及洗衣機，受測者對其報知音有印象的家電為微波爐、洗衣機、冷氣及烤箱等。
報知音色與家電間匹配度實驗共回收問卷62份，以單一t檢定及GLM重複量數分析出，適合冷氣的報知音色為「明亮鋼琴」與「馬林巴木琴」，洗衣機為「馬林巴木琴」，飲水機為「明亮鋼琴」，電鍋及微波爐在本實驗中找不到適合的音色。受測者最常使用家電的「功能印象」來判斷音色是否適合家電。再由單一t檢定得知，受測者喜歡的音色為卡林巴琴、馬林巴木琴、明亮鋼琴、三味線四種，明顯較不喜歡的音色為單簧管、鋸齒波、西塔琴及矩形波。

關鍵字

家電 ； 報知音 ； 音色

並列摘要

This study mainly aims to know what tones of the auditory signals are suitable for what home electric appliances. It takes the questionnaire of the Consumers’ Using Habits of Home electric appliances to investigate the subjective understanding of the subjects towards the auditory signal of the household appliance, as well as the using situation of the household appliance. It then selects 5 appropriate home electric appliances (i.e., air conditioner, electric cooker, washing machine, microwave oven and water dispenser) as the targets for auditory signal study. After that, through literature review, it selects ten kinds of tones which might be suitable for the auditory signal of the target home electric appliances(i.e, Kalimba, Xylophone, Clarinet, Lead2 (sawtooth), Marimba, Sitar, Bright Acoustic Piano, Lead1 (square), Steel drums, Shamisen)，so as to conduct subjective experiment of the matching degree between the auditory signal and the household appliance. Moreover, it also conducts inquiry to the subjects about the matching degree between each tone and household appliance, the impression proof used to determine the matching degree, as well as their preference degree towards the sample tone.
From the finished 91 questionnaires about the Consumers’ Using Habits of Home electric appliances, it can be seen the home electric appliances with highly popularity are washing machine, air conditioner, fan, refrigerator and electric cooker, while those which let the subjects have the impression about the auditory signal are microwave oven, washing machine, air conditioner and toaster.
It totally gets back 62 questionnaires for the subjective experiment of the matching degree between the tone of the signal wave and the household appliance. It adopts Single t Test and GLM Repeated Measures to analyze data, getting the following results. The auditory signal tone suitable for air conditioner is Bright Acoustic Piano and Marimba, washing machine is Marimba，water dispenser is Bright Acoustic Piano, while it doesn’t find out any proper tone for electric cooker and microwave oven. It can be known from GLM Repeated Measures that subjects most use the functional impression of the household appliance to determine if the tone is suitable for it, while least use the appearance impression. We can also know from One-Sample t Test that the Kalimba, Marimba, Bright Acoustic Piano, Shamisen are the tones that the subjects like the most, while Clarinet、Sawtooth、Sitar and Square are the least.

並列關鍵字

home electric appliances ； auditory signal ； tone

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