| Dear list, Thanks very much for all of your responses. I’m summarizing below all the reference recommendations I received. I still want to more fully read some of these, but so far my impression is that the Giordano et al. (2011) paper gives a good review of the benefits and drawbacks of previous methods, but since that was published MUSHRA seems to have become the standard method for these types of subjective perceptual similarity ratings. Please let me know if I seem to be misunderstanding anything here. Cheers, Pat -- Flexer, A., & Grill, T. (2016). The Problem of Limited Inter-rater Agreement in Modelling Music Similarity. Journal of New Music Research, 45(3), 1–13. P. Susini, S. McAdams, S. Winsberg: A multidimensional technique for sound quality assessment. Acta Acustica united with Acustica 85 (1999), 650–656. Novello, A., McKinney, M. F., & Kohlrausch, A. (2006). Perceptual evaluation of music similarity. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Retrieved from http://ismir2006.ismir.net/PAPERS/ISMIR06148_Paper.pdf Michaud, P. Y., Meunier, S., Herzog, P., Lavandier, M., & D’Aubigny, G. D. (2013). Perceptual evaluation of dissimilarity between auditory stimuli: An alternative to the paired comparison. Acta Acustica United with Acustica, 99(5), 806–815. Wolff, D., & Weyde, T. (2011). Adapting Metrics for Music Similarity Using Comparative Ratings. 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR’11), Proc., (Ismir), 73–78. B. L. Giordano, C. Guastavino, E. Murphy, M. Ogg, B. K. Smith, S. McAdams: Comparison of methods for collecting and modeling dissimilarity data: Applications to complex sound stimuli. Multivariate Behavioral Research 46 (2011), 779–811. P. Y. Michaud, S. Meunier, P. Herzog, M. Lavandier, G. d’Aubigny: Perceptual evaluation of dissimilarity between auditory stimuli: an alternative to the paired comparison. Acta Acustica united with Acustica 99 (2013), 806–815. Collett, E., Marx, M., Gaillard, P., Roby, B., Fraysse, B., & Deguine, O. (2016). Categorization of common sounds by cochlear implanted and normal hearing adults. Hearing Research, 335, 207–219. International Telecommunication Union. (2015). ITU-R BS.1534-3, Method for the subjective assessment of intermediate quality level of audio systems. ITU-R Recommendation, 1534–3, 1534–3. Retrieved from https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bs/R-REC-BS.1534-3-201510-I!!PDF-E.pdf Lavandier, M., Meunier, S., & Herzog, P. (2008). Identification of some perceptual dimensions underlying loudspeaker dissimilarities. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(6), 4186–4198. DZHAFAROV, E. N., & OLDENBURG, H. C. (2006). RECONSTRUCTING DISTANCES AMONG OBJECTS FROM THEIR DISCRIMINABILITY. Psychometrika, 71(2), 365–386. Software: Various: MUSHRA: Free-sorting: --- Dr. Patrick Savage Project Associate Professor Faculty of Environment and Information Studies Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus) http://PatrickESavage.com |