Dissertation Proposal : Simulation and Evaluation of Sound Propagation Effects for Virtual Environments

Sound has a multitude of applications in areas ranging from engineering, architecture, entertainment, to environmental noise control. Sound also plays a crucial role in immersive virtual environments with studies showing it can improve the sense of presence and fidelity in training, simulation, education, and entertainment. This makes it important to simulate sound in a perceptuallyaccurate way such that the user’s sense of immersion is not broken owing to a mismatch in the expected stimuli and the generated stimuli.