![]() It is argued that the absence of a detrimental sound effect on the performance of students working on a reading comprehension task with text memory is a result of focusing due to task engagement and task difficulty, both aspects working as a “shield against distraction”. Furthermore, a significant effect of the sound scenarios was found on self-estimated performance and perceived disturbance for all tasks from which the reading comprehension task with text memory was the most disturbed task. However, a significant effect of sound was found on performance of students working on the logical reasoning task. No significant effect of the sound scenarios was found on performance of students working on the reading comprehension task with text memory and the mental arithmetic task. Performance, self-estimated performance and disturbance of students were measured. These additional tasks are a mental arithmetic task and a logical reasoning task. This task comprises a reading comprehension task with text memory by delayed answering questions about the text, with additional tasks being performed in the gap between studying the text and retrieving. Seventy students worked on a set of tasks simulating a “studying for an exam” task while being exposed to the sound scenarios. Three sound scenarios and a quiet reference sound scenario were developed, based on the sound environment of a real open-plan study environment, with a varying number of talkers in the background and different reverberation times of the study environment. To improve the acoustic quality of open-plan study environments a study was done on the influence of different sound scenarios on students working on a typical student task, “studying for an exam”. Students can be disturbed by background noise while working in an open-plan study environment. ![]() ![]() ![]() 4Human-Technology Interaction, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.3Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.1School of the Built Environment and Infrastructure, Avans University of Applied Sciences, Tilburg, Netherlands.Ella Braat-Eggen 1*, Jikke Reinten 2, Maarten Hornikx 3 and Armin Kohlrausch 4 ![]()
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