Francesco Aletta

Francesco Aletta got his MArch and PhD at the Second University of Naples. He has been Research Associate at the Acoustics Group, School of Architecture of the University of Sheffield (UK), since 2013, working on soundscape descriptors and indicators. Since 2016 he is working at Ghent University, Department of Information Technology within the WAVES research group. Since 2016 he has been appointed as Editorial Board member of the Frontiers in Psychology journal (Environmental Psychology section).

Publications

Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design
Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design
Francesco Aletta, Jieling Xiao. © 2018. 641 pages.
The creation of metropolitan areas is influenced by a wide array of factors, both practical and ecological. They can also be influenced by immaterial characteristics of a given...
Non-Participant Observation Methods for Soundscape Design and Urban Planning
Non-Participant Observation Methods for Soundscape Design and Urban Planning
Lisa Lavia, Harry J. Witchel, Francesco Aletta, Jochen Steffens, André Fiebig, Jian Kang, Christine Howes, Patrick G. T. Healey. © 2018. 27 pages.
More accurate non-participatory parameters and psychoacoustics to assess human perceptual responses to the acoustic environment are critical to inform effective urban sound...