186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
Ottawa, Canada 13-17 May 2024
Acoustics Lay Language Papers
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Can aliens found in museums teach us about learning sound categories?
Aliens in museums show that kids and adults learn things about speech sounds in different ways!
What could happen to Earth if we blew up an incoming asteroid?
Imagine a hypothetical scenario: an asteroid has been discovered just a week before it hits Earth. What can we do about it?
Pulverize It has an answer. This NASA-funded study is a multi-use planetary defense effort that could break apart asteroids, whether a week away or a year away.
Listening for bubbles to make scuba diving safer
Diving into safer waters: This research team is working towards a compact wearable ultrasound device to detect bubbles in real-time, which could revolutionize diver safety and personalized prevention against decompression sickness.
Unlocking the Secrets of Ocean Dynamics: Insights from ALMA
Monitoring the underwater acoustic propagation using ALMA to investigate complex impacts of oceanographic fluctuations
Taking Pictures of the Sound of a Rocket
The rumble of a large rocket launching is one of the loudest non-explosive sounds that mankind has ever made. Where does that sound come from?
The science of baby speech sounds: men and women may experience them differently
Did you know? Men and women may experience baby speech sounds differently. Our research reveals intriguing gender variations in how adults perceive infant vocalizations. 🍼 #BabySounds #GenderDifferences #Parenting
What makes drones sound annoying? The answer may lie in noise fluctuations
One reason why drones sound so annoying may be noise fluctuations caused by the phasing between different rotors
Teaching about the Dangers of Loud Music with InteracSon’s Hearing Loss Simulation Platform
Discover how your music habits could affect your future hearing with InteracSon. Calculate your “Age of Your Ears” and experience simulated hearing loss firsthand. Let’s protect our hearing together!
Babies lead the way – a discovery with infants brings new insights to vowel perception
Babies lead the way… a discovery with infants sparks research which exposes the multimodal and movement-referenced basis of vowel perception.
Reducing Ship Noise Pollution with Structured Quarter-Wavelength Resonators
Reducing Ship Noise Pollution with Structured Quarter-Wavelength Resonators
Popping Droplets for Drug Delivery
Exploring innovative drug delivery vehicles: Popping droplets activated by sound waves open new avenues for targeted therapy
Novel audio analysis helps identify multiple sounds in forensic gunshot recordings
New recording technology and novel audio analysis help identify multiple sounds in forensic gunshot recordings.
Tools for shaping the sound of the future city in virtual reality
How does the future city sound like? We research on #VR tools to make the #sound of #urban environments audible using #auralization. Excited to check this?
Reducing the Sound Transmission Between Suites, One Conduit at a Time
Residents living in an apartment or condominium expect a certain amount of privacy, especially when it comes to noise intrusions from neighbours. In fact, there are Building Code requirements in most jurisdictions which outline minimum requirements for the design of suite-demising architectural assemblies, to limit the allowable amount of sound that can go directly through (or in some cases, around) walls, floors, and ceilings. Despite this, sometimes, noise finds a way to travel through the building in unexpected ways, bypassing these assemblies.
Listen In: Infrasonic Whispers Reveal the Hidden Structure of Planetary Interiors and Atmospheres
Listen in: Infrasound’s Whisper Reveals the Hidden Structure of Planetary Interiors and Atmospheres. Did you know that low-frequency sound waves below 20 Hz, known as infrasound, can provide crucial insights into a planet’s atmosphere and interior?
Soundscape to Improve the Experience of People with Dementia; Considering How They Process Sounds
Soundscape augmentation can enhance mood, lower anxiety and promote health in people with dementia. Each type of dementia has unique symptoms, like auditory hallucinations and musicophilia. Understanding diversity is critical in designing a soundscape for PwD.
Vowel Adjustments: The Key to High-Pitched Singing
Why do singers change their vowels?
Bats could help the development of AI robots
Performance and reliability at miminal cost: The biosonar system of bats may help to make AI robots fit for the real world.
Tailoring Hearing Aid Adjustments: The Impact of Cognitive Abilities on Speech Understanding in Noise
Individuals with lower cognitive abilities (working memory) are affected the most in conditions with poor signal fidelity
Sounds of the Hindu Temples of South India
What do the sounds within temples tell us about their architecture? What is the history behind the sonic experiences of millions of devotees of one of the oldest religions in the world?
The Cost of Transparency: Acoustics and Sustainability Issues with Glass Office Partitions
Using embodied carbon values for glass, we estimated that the carbon cost of all the glazed partitions in one multi-floor office was equivalent to driving one-way from New York to Seattle 51 times in an average gasoline-powered car.
Using rays to describe spinning sound
Ray theory distills the intricate dynamics of sound that is spun and focused to a tractable geometry problem.
New scientific tools help national parks learn more about wildlife and natural sounds
Translating mountains of audio data into research and management insights for national parks is a challenging task, but emerging tools are making it easier.
Towards studying Venus seismicity, subsurface, and atmosphere using atmospheric acoustics
Using balloon-based acoustic sensors floating in Venus’s atmosphere to detect venusquakes from the air to study Venus’s subsurface and seismic activity.
Super-resolution ultrasound to prevent breast cancer patients from undergoing ineffective therapy
Super-resolution ultrasound might considerably improve the therapy outcome of patients with particularly aggressive breast cancer by identifying those which insufficiently respond to chemotherapy.
The Infrasonic Choir: Decoding Songs to Inform Decisions
Listening to, and deciphering, the infrasonic choir around us allows us to better understand how the world around us is evolving.
High-resolution microvessel imaging using novel beamforming techniques and no microbubbles!
Superresolved microvessels without microbubbles! You can see it here in full 3D!
Moving Cargo, Keeping Whales: Investigating Solutions for Ship Noise Pollution
Southern California waters are lit up with noise pollution 🚢💥🌊. Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are investigating solutions to reduce noise pollution.
A general method to obtain clearer images at a higher resolution than theoretical limit
A researcher developed a general method to overcome a long-standing diffraction limit. The method is not only applicable to wave-based imaging systems, but also is in principle applicable to other linear shift-invariant (LSI) imaging systems such as X-ray radiography, X-ray CT, MRI, gamma camera, SPECT, and PET.
Why is it easier to understand people we know?
It’s much easier to understand what others are saying if you’re listening to a close friend or family member, compared to a stranger. If you practice listening to the voices of people you’ve never met before, you might also become better at understanding them too.