About the person

• since 1992 member of the graduate programme "Psychoacoustics" at the University of Oldenburg

• 1992 to 1996 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Noise Control (Springer Verlag) and member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration

• 1986 Satoo Prize of the Acoustical Society of Japan

• 1994 Japanese-German Research Award of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

• 1998 Honorary doctorate from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Baltic State Technical University in St. Petersburg

• Member of the interdisciplinary working group for noise impact issues at the Federal Environment Agency Berlin

Publications

• Books

• Oldenburg Symposia on Psychological Acoustics

• Contributions to journals, books and congresses (since 1990)

  • Joint declarations, history of acoustics

  • Studies on the effects of recreational noise on children

  • Studies on the effects of traffic noise on children

  • Studies on the effects of noise in schools on children

  • Comparative cultural studies on danger signals and neighbourhood noise

  • Psychological acoustics: More theory-orientated work

  • Psychological acoustics: More application-orientated work

Books

Laucken, Uwe; August Schick; Holger Höge: Introduction to the study of psychology. An orientation guide for pupils and students. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1996, 7th edition (also published in Italian and Czech).

Laucken, Uwe & August Schick (eds.): Didactics of Psychology. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1977.

Schick, A.: Schallwirkung aus psychologischer Sicht. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1979 (also in Russian)

Schick, A.: Sound evaluation. Fundamentals of noise research. Berlin et al: Springer-Verlag 1990.

Schick, A.: The concept of annoyance in noise research. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers 1997 (also in Russian and Korean)

Fastl, H.; Kuwano, S.; Schick, A. (Eds.): Recent trends in hearing research. Festschrift for Seiichiro Namba. Oldenburg: BIS 1996

Schick, A. (ed.): Karl Eberhard Zwicker: Feldpostbriefe aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg an seine Eltern Wilhelm und Luise Zwicker und seinen Bruder Ulrich. Oldenburg: BIS 1993.

Oldenburg Symposia on Psychological Acoustics

(the complete texts - several thousand pages - are available from us on a CD ROM)

Schick, August (ed.) (1981). Acoustics between physics and psychology. Results of the 2nd Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. With the participation of 34 physicists, engineers and psychologists. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

Schick, August & Walcher, Klaus Peter (eds.) (1984). Contributions to the theory of the meaning of sound. Results of the 3rd Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics (Europäische Hochschulschriften 39/1). Bern, Frankfurt, New York: Peter Lang.

Schick, August, Höge, Holger & Lazarus-Mainka, Gerda (Eds.) (1991). Contributions to Psychological Acoustics. Results of the Fifth Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Oldenburg: BIS.

Schick, August, Hellbrück, Jürgen & Weber, Reinhard (Eds.) (1993). Contributions to Psychological Acoustics VI. Results of the 6th Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Oldenburg: BIS.

Schick, August & Klatte, Maria (Eds.) (1997). Contributions to Psychological Acoustics VII. Results of the 7th Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Oldenburg: BIS.

Schick, August & Meis, Markus & Reckhardt, Carsten (Eds.) (2000). Contributions to Psychological Acoustics VIII. Results of the 8th Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Oldenburg: BIS.

Schick, August; Klatte, Maria; Meis, Markus; Nocke, Christian (Eds.) (2003). Contributions to Psychological Acoustics. Results of the Ninth Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Hearing in schools. Oldenburg: BIS.

Contributions to journals, books and congresses (since 1990)

Joint declarations, history of acoustics

Berndt, H.; Pfeiffer, U.; Plath, P.; Schick, A.; Schuschke, G.; Stange, G.; Zenner, H.-P.; Ising, H. : Gehörgefährdung durch laute Musik. Statement of the Commission "Sociakusis (civilisation hearing damage)" of the Federal Environment Agency. Z. für Lärmbekämpfung 1995, vol. 42, 144.

Jansen, G.; Schick, A.: In memoriam Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Zwicker. Z. für Lärmbekämpfung 1991, Vol. 38, H. 2, 31.

Schick, A.: History of psychoacoustics. In: Proceedings of ICA 2004. The 18th International Congress on Acoustics. KyotoAcoustical Science and Technology for Quality of Life. Volume V; p. 3759-3762.

Schick, A.: Psychoacoustics in Germany and its relations to Japan. The J. of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E) 2000, Vol. 21, No. 6, 323-327.

Schick, A.: Psychological acoustics in Germany and its relations to Japan. In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (ed.): Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2000. Plenary lectures and technical papers of the 26th German Annual Acoustics Conference. Oldenburg: DEGA, 2000; p. 87f.

Schick, A.: Theodor Lessing and his "Anti-Lärm-Verein." in: Kotowski (ed.): "Sinngebung des Sinnlosen." Zum Leben und Werk des Kulturkritikers Theodor Lessing (1872-1933). Hildesheim: Georg Olms (Haskala series). To be published in 2005

Studies on the effects of recreational noise on children

Schick, August: Noise and loud music. Psychological analysis and preventive measures. Published in: Berichte aus dem Institut zur Erforschung von Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen, University of Oldenburg, Number 38 (2001)

Studies on the effects of traffic noise on children

Meis, M.; Schick, A.: Effects of traffic noise on children: sensitisation or habituation? In: Cudina, Mirko (Ed.): Proceedings of the Second Congress of Slovenian Acoustical Society with international participation and exhibition, 21-22 September 2000, Portoroz, Slovenia. Ljubljana: Slovenian Acoustical Society, 2000; p. 285-294.

Meis, M.; Hygge, S.; Evans, G.W.; Lercher, P.; Bullinger, M.; Schick, A.: The effects of chronic and acute transportation noise on task performance of school children. In: Cassereau, D. (Ed.): Internoise 2000. 29th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering. Nice, France, 27-30 August, 2000. vol. 1, p. 347-352.

Meis, M.; Schick, A.; Klatte, M.; Bullinger, M.: Effects of Transrapid and air traffic noise on memory performance: Clustering as a sound-memory mediator. In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (ed.): Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2000. Plenary lectures and technical papers of the 26th German Annual Conference on Acoustics. Oldenburg: DEGA, 2000; pp. 800-801.

Meis, Markus; Hygge, Staffan; Evans, Gary W.; Bullinger, Monika; Schick, August: Effects of traffic noise on implicit and explicit memory: results from field and laboratory studies. In: Carter, N.; Soames Job, R. F. (Eds.): Noise Effects '98. 7th Intern. Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem. Sydney, 22-26 November 1998. vol. 1; p. 389-394.

Meis, Markus; Schick, August; Klatte, Maria; Bullinger, Monika: Effects of Transrapid and air traffic noise on memory performance: Clustering as a sound-memory mediator. In: Advances in Acoustics. DAGA 98 - Zurich. Plenary lectures and technical papers of the 24th German Annual Conference on Acoustics. Oldenburg: DEGA, 1998; pp. 718-719.

Meis, Markus; Schick, August;: Effects of traffic noise on children: sensitisation or habituation? In: Second Congress of Slovenian Acoustical Society. Portoroz, Slovenia, September 21st-22nd, 2000.

Schick, A.: The effect of noise on children from a noise psychology perspective. Reports from the Institute for Research on Human-Environment Relations, University of Oldenburg, Department 5, Psychology. 1990, No. 10

Sukowski, H.; Meis, M.; Lercher, P.; Heydinger, D.; Schick, A.: Noise annoyance of children exposed to chronic traffic noise: results from the Tyrol School Study II. In: Schick, August; Meis, Markus; Reckhardt, Carsten (Eds.): Contributions to Psychological Acoustics. Results of the Eighth Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Library and Information System of the University of Oldenburg, 2000; p. 571-580.

Studies on the effects of noise in schools on children

Hagen, M.; Hemmer-Schanze, C.; Huber, L.; Kahlert, J.; Salgado Martin, M.; Meis, M.; Guerrero Salgado, C.; Schick, A.; Sukowski, H.: Final report of the project 'Zur Wirkung aktiver und passiver raumakustischer Interventionen im Rahmen des Bund-Länder-Kommission-Projektes GanzOhrSein'. University of Oldenburg, Institute for Research on Human-Environment Relations, LMU Munich, Chair of Primary School Pedagogy and Didactics, commissioned by Odenwald Faserplattenwerk (OWA) and Sennheiser Electronic, 2003.

Kahl, C. H.; Heydinger, D.; Meis, M.; Nocke, C.; Schick, A.; Moringa, M.; Kuwano, S.; Namba, S.: Subjective impression of speech in classrooms - The effect of reverberation time. Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, report no. N-2003-07.

Meis, M.; Uygun, A.; Janott, C.; Hemmer-Schanze, C.; Hilge, C.; Kahlert, J.; Schick, A.: On the effect of active and passive room acoustics measures on the noise perception and quality of life of pupils: Results from a prospective longitudinal study. In: Advances in acoustics. Plenary lectures and technical papers of the 29th Annual Conference on Acoustics DAGA '03, Aachen. Oldenburg: German Society for Acoustics (DEGA), 2003; pp. 630-631.

Schick, August; Klatte, Maria; Meis, Markus: Die Lärmbelastung von Lehrern und Schülern - ein Forschungsstandsbericht. Z. für Lärmbekämpfung 1999, 46, 77-87.

Schick, August; Klatte, Maria: Noise exposure at school - European research results. In: Proceedings of the conference 'Zuhören im Medienzeitalter', 26-28 March 2001 in Weilburg; p. 6.

Schick, August; Klatte, Maria; Meis, Markus: Noise exposure at school. In: Huber, L.; Odersky, E.: Listening - Learning - Understanding. Braunschweig: Westermann, 2000 (Praxis Pädagogik); pp. 81-91.

Schick, August; Klatte, Maria; Meis, Markus: Noise stress in classrooms. In: Schick, August; Meis, Markus; Reckhardt, Carsten (Eds.): Contributions to Psychological Acoustics. Results of the Eighth Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Library and Information System of the University of Oldenburg, 2000; p. 533-569.

Comparative cultural studies on danger signals and neighbourhood noise

Kaku, J.; Kato, T.; Kuwano, S.; Namba, S.; Zeitler, A.; Hellbrueck, J.; Schick, A.: Cross-cultural study on the loudness evaluation of environmental noise. In: Cassereau, D. (Ed.): Internoise 2000. 29th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering. Nice, France, 27-30 August, 2000. vol. 5, p. 3207-3213.

Kuwano, Sonoko; Namba, Seiichiro; Fastl, Hugo; Schick, August: Evaluation of the impression of danger signals: Comparison between Japanese and German subjects. In: Schick, August & Klatte, Maria (Eds.). Contributions to Psychological Acoustics VII. Results of the 7th Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Oldenburg: BIS 1997, pp. 115-128.

Kuwano, Sonoko; Namba, Seiichiro; Schick, August; Fastl, Hugo; Florentine, Mary: Impression of dangerous and timbre of auditory warning signals. Ac. Soc. Japan: Spring-Meeting 2000, No. 3-2-9, p. 691-692.

Kuwano, Sonoko; Namba, Seiichiro; Schick, August; Höge, Holger; Fastl, Hugo; Filippou, Thomas; Florentine, Mary; Muesch, Hannes: The timbre and annoyance of auditory warning signals in different countries. Inter'Noise 2000 in Nice.

Müller-Andritzky, M.; Chassein, J.; Schick, A.: Kulturvergleichende Untersuchung zur Lärmbewertung in der Wohnnachbarschaft. Z. für Lärmbekämpfung 1992, 39, 20-24.

Müller-Andritzky, M.; Chassein, J.; Schick, A.: Noise as a fctor in residential neighbourhoods - A comparison between Germany and Japan. In: Schick, August, Hellbrueck, J. & Weber, R. (Eds.): Contributions to Psychological Acoustics V. Results of the Fifth Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Oldenburg: BIS 1991, pp. 45-60.

Namba, S.; Kuwano, S.; Schick, A.; Açlar, A.,; Florentine, M.; Zheng, Da Rui: A cross-cultural study on noise problems: Comparison of the results obtained in Japan, West Germany, U.S., China and Turkey. In: The Second Swedish/Japanese Symposium, Aug. 1990

Schick, A.: Noise in housing from the perspective of psychology. Bauwelt 1990, 81, 987-990

Schick, A.: Noise research from the perspective of psychology. Z. für Lärmbekämpfung 1992, 39, 113-118

Schick, A.: Aims of noise control from the perspective of noise impact research. Journal of Noise Abatement 1993, 40, 1-4

Schick, A.; Höge, Holger: Cross-cultural psychoacoustics. In: Fastl, Hugo; Kuwano, Sonoko; Schick, A. (Eds.): Recent trends in hearing research. Festschrift for Seiichiro Namba. Oldenburg: BIS 1996, pp. 287-316.

Schick, A.: Subjectivation as a common feature of arts, religion and psychology. Japanese J. of Psychonomic Science 2001, Vol. 20, No. 1, 60-63.

Psychological acoustics: More theory-orientated work

Hahn, Andrea; Hellbrück, Jürgen; Schick, August: Loudness judgments of traffic noise by means of category subdivision scaling. In: Schick, August; Meis, Markus; Reckhardt, Carsten (Eds.): Contributions to psychological Acoustics. Results of the Eighth Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Library and Information System of the University of Oldenburg, 2000; p. 103-111.

Hellbrück, J.; Kato, T.; Kuwano, S.; Namba, S.; Schick, A.; Zeitler, A.: Loudness scaling of traffic noise: Perceptual and cognitive factors. International Congress of Acoustics Roma, 2001.

Namba, Seiichiro; Kuwano, Sonoko; Hashimoto, Takeo; Berglund, Birgitta; Zheng, Da Rui; Schick, A.; Höge, Holger; Florentine, M.: Verbal expression of emotional impression of sound: A cross-cultural study. J. of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E) 1991, 12, 19-29.

Schick, A.: Perceptions of hearing. A look at the history of psychological hearing research. In: Blomann, Karl-Heinz & Sielecki, Frank (eds.): Das Hören neuer Musik. Hofheim: Wolke-Verlag 1997, pp. 95-103

Schick, A.: The treatment of psychoacoustics from the perspective of a noise abatement psychologist. EIA report 1992, 6, 153-157

Schick, A.: Different interpretations of the meaning of annoyance. In: Inter'Noise 94. proceedings. The 1994 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering. Yokohama-Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 785-790

Schick, A.: Development and status of psychoacoustic research. Blomann, Karl-Heinz & Sielecki, Frank (eds.): Das Hören neuer Musik. Hofheim: Wolke-Verlag 1997, pp. 47-73

Schick, A.: Sounds in the passenger compartment of a car: The significance of speech - explained using the example of Japanese sound colour research. In: Ahmed, Syed R. (ed.): Acoustics and aerodynamics of motor vehicles. Fundamentals - optimisation methods - measurement and testing technology. Renningen-Malsheim: expert verlag 1995, pp. 18-31.

Schick, A.: Annoyance: A valid limit value in noise protection? In: Experimental contributions to a metric of the psychic. Otto Heller on his 65th birthday. Würzburg 1991, 109-121

Schick, A.: Noise and sounds as objects and means of artistic design. In: Proceedings ASJ International Symposium in Osaka: Contribution of acoustics to the creation of comfortable sound environment. Tokyo: Acoustical Society of Japan 1992, p. 1-14

Schick, A.: On the validity of annoyance judgments: An overview on different viewpoints. In: Müller, Fr. (Ed.): Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Würzburg 1990, F.R.G.. Fechner Day 90. Würzburg: International Society for Psychophysics 1990, p. 146-151

Schick, A.: The role of subjects and its importance for differential noise psychology. In: Inter'Noise 96. Proceedings. The 1996 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering. Liverpool-England, Vol. 4, pp. 2121-2126

Schick, A.: From psychophysics to the auditory stream: A journey from Fechner to Albert Bregman. Evening lecture at the annual conference of the German Acoustics Society, Bonn: DPG 1996, pp. 22-31.

Schick, August: Conceptions of hearing a survey of the history of psychological auditory research. In: Cudina, Mirko (Ed.): Proceedings of the first congress of Slovenian Acoustical Society. Portoroz 1998, p. 19-26.

Schick, August: Effects of traffic noise in Germany: Non-acoustical effects of traffic noise. In: East-European Acoustical Association (Ed.): Proceedings of the International Symposium 'Transport Noise and Vibration'. Tallinn: Technical University 1998, p. 9-16.

Schick, August: Non-auditory conditions of perception and their significance for vehicle acoustics. In: Bodden, M.; Heinrichs, R. (Eds.): Noise Quality. Methods and realisation in the automotive and electrical industry. Conference No. K-H030-06-012-0 at the Haus der Technik, Essen, 26-27 June 2000.

Schick, August: Semantics of hearing in car manufacturing. In: Guidati, G.; Hunt, H.; Heller, H.; Heiss, A. (Eds.): Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on Sound and Vibration. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, July 4-7, 2000. vol. 4, p. 2519-2526.

Schick, August: Theories of meaning as bridges between psychology and engineering. In: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Noise Control - Euro-Noise Munich '98. German Acoustical Society 1998, Vol. 1, p. 529-534.

Schick, A.: From the psychology of hearing to the design of human-environment relationships. In: Publications of the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. Stuttgart: University of Applied Sciences, Vol. 58, p. 29-40.

Psychological acoustics: Rather application-orientated work

Quehl, Julia; Höge, Holger; Schick, August: Rail bonus for Transrapid? In: Progress in Acoustics. DAGA 98 - Zurich. Plenary lectures and technical papers of the 24th German Annual Conference on Acoustics. Oldenburg: DEGA, 1998; pp. 446-447.

Quehl, Julia; Schick, August; Mellert, Volker: Development of a semantic differential suitable for the assessment of combined sound and vibration effects and its application to vehicle vibro-acoustics. IDraft, 2000; 5 p.

Quehl, Julia; Schick, August; Mellert, Volker; Schulte-Fortkamp, Brigitte; Remmers, Hermann: Dimensions of combined acoustic and vibration perception in aircrafts derived by factor analysis of semantic differential data. In: Cassereau, D. (Ed.): Internoise 2000. 29th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering. Nice, France, 27-30 August, 2000. vol. 1, p. 465-469.

Quehl, Julia; Schick, August; Mellert, Volker; Schulte-Fortkamp, Brigitte; Remmers, Hermann: Evaluation of combined aircraft interior sound and vibration effects on passengers' well-being and comfort sensation: the elaboration of a concept-specific methodological instrument. In: Schick, August; Meis, Markus; Reckhardt, Carsten (Eds.): Contributions to Psychological Acoustics. Results of the Eighth Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Library and Information System of the University of Oldenburg, 2000; p. 201-208.

Schick A.: Noise in the passenger compartment of the car: a historical outline. In: Ahmed, Syed R. (ed.): Acoustics and aerodynamics of motor vehicles. Fundamentals - optimisation methods - measurement and testing technology. Renningen-Malsheim: expert verlag 1995, pp. 32-47.

Schick, A.: Evaluation of sound and noise in passenger cars - Thoughts on the role of psychology in the field of vehicle acoustics. Lecture in the Faculty for Technical Mechanics, University of Ljubljana 1996.

Schick, A.: Geräusche zwischen Genuß und Plage (en français: Son et bruits entre art et fléau). In: Sans, Jérôme & Karin Günther: Infrasound. City. Noises. Hamburg Week of the Visual Arts. Hamburg: Kellner 1995, pp. 40-55

Schick, A.: History of evaluation of sound and noise in passenger cars. Noise Abstracts and Reviews 1994, 1, No. 3, 3-10.

Schick, A.: Noise effects from the psychological viewpoint: Current problems (German/English/Russian). Noise Abstracts and Reviews 1996, Vol. 3, pp. 5-9.

Schick, A.; Meis, M.: Reduction of individual noise-related health risks with the help of health psychological knowledge and stress management. In: Bartels, Karl-Hermann; Ising, Hartmut (eds.): Nachtfluglärmproblematik. Ergebnisse des Workshops in Neufahrn im Juni 2001, Organiser: Ärzte für vorbeugende Umweltmedizin e. V. Berlin: Eigenverlag WaBoLu, 2001 (Schriftenreihe des Vereins für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene, Vol. 111); pp. 106-111.

Shimai, S.; Schick, A.; Höge, H.: A cross-cultural study of identification and pleasantness-unpleasantness of environmental sounds. In: Inter'Noise 94. proceedings. The 1994 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering. Yokohama-Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 839-844

Springer, N.; Weber, R.; Schick, A.: Instantaneous and overall loudness of temporally variable pink noise. In: Klatte, Maria & Schick, A. (Eds.): Contributions to Psychological Acoustics VII. Results of the Seventh Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Oldenburg: BIS 1997, pp. 91-98.

Vormann, M.; Schick, A.; Meis, M.; Klatte, M.; Mellert, V.: Tonhaltigkeit aus psychophysikalischer Sichtweise: Investigation of subject instruction in the evaluation of tonality. In: Progress in Acoustics. DAGA 98 - Zurich. Plenary lectures and technical papers of the 24th German Annual Conference on Acoustics. Oldenburg: DEGA, 1998; pp. 456-457.

Vormann, Matthias; Meis, Markus; Mellert, Volker; Schick, August: A new approach for the evaluation of tonal noise (tonality). In: Dau, T.; Hohmann, V.; Kollmeier, B. (Eds.): Psychophysics, Physiology and Models of Hearing. Oldenburg, Germany, 31 August - 4 September 1998. Singapore, River Edge, London, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 1999; p. 109-112.

Vormann, Matthias; Verhey, Jesko L.; Mellert, Volker; Schick, August: An adaptive procedure for determining the subjective tonalness. In: Cassereau, D. (Ed.): Internoise 2000. 29th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering. Nice, France, 27-30 August, 2000. vol. 2, p. 1166.

Vormann, Matthias; Verhey, Jesko-L.; Mellert, Volker; Schick, August: Subjective rating of tonal components in noise with an adaptive procedure. In: Schick, August; Meis, Markus; Reckhardt, Carsten (Eds.): Contributions to Psychological Acoustics. Results of the Eighth Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Library and Information System of the University of Oldenburg, 2000; p. 145-153.

Weber, R.; Schulte-Fortkamp, B.; Kuwano, S.; Namba, S.; Schick, A.: Assessment of rough sounds by Japanese listeners using a combined psychoacoustical and socioacoustical approach. 3d Joint Meeting - Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan 1996

links

• German Working Group for Noise Abatement (DAL)
• Catholic University of Eichstätt, Environmental and Health Psychology, Jürgen Hellbrück.