Acoustics ’17 Boston
173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the 8th Forum Acusticum

Boston, Massachusetts
25-29 June 2017

Please keep in mind that some of the research described in these lay papers may not have yet been peer reviewed.

Boston, MA

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Here is the press conference schedule.

Date	Time	Speakers	Affiliation	Title	Presentation
6/26/2017	1:00pm	David Lubman	DL Acoustics	Cave Artists Made Sound Location Choices	5pAAc3. Did Paleolithic cave artists intentionally paint at resonant cave locations?
6/26/2017	2:00pm	Bo Schenkman	Royal Institute of Technology	Human Echolocation	1aAAa1. Human echolocation in different situations and rooms
6/26/2017	2:00pm	Joseph Blackmore	University of Oxford	Using Acoustics to Image the Brain	2aBAa7. Focusing ultrasound through the skull for neuromodulation
6/26/2017	3:00pm	Ivan Tashev	Microsoft Corporation	VR Technology	3pSP1. Modelling and estimation of the spatial impulse response in reverberant conditions
6/26/2017	3:00pm	Hannes Gamper	Microsoft Corporation	VR Technology	3pSP1. Modelling and estimation of the spatial impulse response in reverberant conditions

6/27/2017	8:30am	Sonja Di Blasio	Politecnico di Torino	S&N-S Light: the system that makes the noise light	3aAAb1 S&N-S Light: An anthropic noise control device to reduce the noise level in densely occupied spaces encouraging perso-nal control of voice
6/27/2017	9:00am	Ryan Harne	The Ohio State University	Acoustic Origami	2pSP6. Directive and focused acoustic wave radiation by tessellated transducers with folded curvatures
6/27/2017	10:00am	Delphine Chadefaux	Aix Marseille University	Acoustics of the Human Body – Runners	5aSAb1. How runners deal with the shock induced vibrations propagating through their body?
6/27/2017	10:00am	Stefan Catheline	INSERM	Human Body Seismicity	1pUWb5. Passive elastography: A shear wave tomography of the human body

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2pSP6 – Directive and focused acoustic wave radiation by tessellated transducers with folded curvatures

Jun 28, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper, Signal Processing

Researchers investigate a new form of adaptive acoustic energy delivery from foldable arrays by studying tessellated transducers that adopt folded curvatures

1pAAa6 – Soundscape of washroom equipment

Jun 26, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Architectural Acoustics, Lay Language Paper

how good is your washroom wall, door and window at reducing the toilet flush sound while you are sleeping, working or studying?

3aMU5 – How stones make musical sounds?

Jun 25, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper, Musical Acoustics

Korean stone chimes, called pyeongyeongs, provide another example of tuning sound by change geometrical shape of bars.

2aNSa1 – Tranquillity Trails in the city?

Jun 25, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper, Noise

Tranquillity Trails are walking routes designed to enable residents and visitors to reflect and recover from stress while receiving the benefits of healthy exercise.

1aID1 – Machine learning allows automatic recognition of everyday sounds

Jun 25, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper

Automatic detection of sounds is difficult, since the acoustic characteristics of different sources can be very similar, and there is no single, specific acoustic property that could be utilised for recognition

2pSC7 – Seeing is Treating: The Opti-Speech Clinical Trial at CHSC

Jun 25, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper, Speech Communication

Opti-Speech is a technology that provides visualization in the speech therapy room.

1pSC12 – Is it blow or below? How well can second-language learners distinguish between words that differ in syllable count?

Jun 25, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper, Speech Communication

Languages vary not only in the vowels and consonants that are used, but also in how the vowels and consonants combine to form syllables and words.

1aAAa2 – Can humans use echolocation to hear the difference between different kinds of walls?

Jun 25, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Architectural Acoustics, Lay Language Paper

Can we “hear objects”, or correctly said, sound reflections from objects? In other words, can we “echolocate”?

How Can MRI Contribute to Cleft Palate Care?

Jun 25, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper

With the support of a team of experts in cleft palate and bioimaging, we described a method for obtaining dynamic magnetic resonance images (MRI) of children during speech.

2pAO6 – Ocean tides are conductors of underwater icy concerts

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Acoustical Oceanography, Lay Language Paper

For consolidated ice cover, the highest noise levels occurred suddenly at low water, when underwater rocks are crushing the ice

2pAAb1 – The acoustics of rooms for music rehearsal and performance: The Norwegian approach

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Architectural Acoustics, Lay Language Paper

The Norwegian Council for Music Organizations has completed more than 600 acoustical room measurement reports on rooms used for rehearsal and concerts.

2aAB3 – A Loud, Ultrasonic Party

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Animal Bioacoustics, Lay Language Paper

In order to investigate how these bats change calls while flying in groups, researchers developed a new method

3pAB5 – How Canaries Listen to Their Song

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Animal Bioacoustics, Lay Language Paper

Researchers explored how canaries in a non-breeding state listen to their song by testing their auditory perception

My personal head related transfer function

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper

The innovation of our research is in the development of a methodology constructing individual 3D computer models (CAD) of heads and ears, including the outer part of the ear, called the pinna.

S&N-S Light: the system that makes the noise light

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper

Researchers developed Speech & Noise-Stop Light, S&N-S Light, a patented, smart sound level meter device with a warning light triggered by exceeding a predetermined anthropic sound level difference

2pAO10 – What Can We Learn from Breaking Wave Noise?

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Acoustical Oceanography, Lay Language Paper

breaking waves are the product of storms at sea, they are a source of intense turbulence and they can destroy the sensitive instruments we might use to measure them.

4aSAb12 – Designing Tunable Acoustic Metamaterials Using 3-D Computer Graphics

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper, Structural Acoustics and Vibration

The ability to tune metallic foam properties for various noise and vibration mitigation applications is a valuable tool for industrial designers and engineers.

Effects of noise for workers in the transportation industry

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper, Noise

For pilots and bus, truck and train drivers, the noise levels in the area they are working can be 65 to more than 75 dBA at times.

3pAB1 – A Welcoming Whinny

Jun 22, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Animal Bioacoustics, Lay Language Paper

When doing research on horse whinnys researchers realized they were hearing more whinnys when horses were inside the barn than out.

2pSAa – Three-in-one Sound Effects: A redirecting antenna, beam splitter and a sonar

Jun 21, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Lay Language Paper, Structural Acoustics and Vibration

is it possible, we wondered, to break down a complex acoustic compound into its constituents and separate one of those pure tones from the rest?

2aAAc3 – Vocal Effort, Load and Fatigue in Virtual Acoustics

Jun 21, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Architectural Acoustics, Lay Language Paper, Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

the study was designed to better understand how self-reported vocal fatigue is related to objective voice parameters like voice intensity, pitch, and their fluctuation, as well as the duration of the vocal load.

2aBAa7 – Stimulating the brain with ultrasound: treatment planning

Jun 21, 2017 | 173rd Meeting, Biomedical Acoustics, Lay Language Paper

Researchers performed a numerical study to assess whether single-element transducers could be used in combination with numerical modelling to achieve sufficient targeting in the brain.