Acoustics Lay Language Papers
Here you will find Acoustics Lay Language Papers (ALLP) from the most recent ASA Meeting. These are 300 to 500 word summaries of meeting presentations written by scientists for a general audience. Papers are accompanied by photos, audio and video. ASA is happy to provide this platform for media representatives and anyone interested in learning about the newest acoustics research. Please keep in mind that some of the research described here may not have yet been peer reviewed.
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1pEAa4 – How does the stethoscope actually work?
Lukasz J. Nowak – lnowak@ippt.pan.plInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of SciencesPawinskiego 5B02-106 Warszawa, Poland Popular version of paper 1pEAa4, “An Experimental Study on the Role and Function of the Diaphragm in Modern Acoustic...
3aAA1 – Are restaurants and bars in New York City too loud?
Gregory Scott - greg@soundprint.coSoundPrintP.O. Box 74New York, NY 10150 Popular version of paper 3aAA1, “Analyses of crowd-sourced sound levels, logged from more than 2250 restaurants and bars in New York City”Presented Wednesday, December 06, 2017, 7:50-8:10 AM,...
2pSP6 – Directive and focused acoustic wave radiation by tessellated transducers with folded curvatures
Ryan L. Harne*: harne.3@osu.eduDanielle T. Lynd: lynd.47@osu.eduChengzhe Zou: zou.258@osu.eduJoseph Crump: crump.1@themetroschool.org201 W 19th Ave., N350 Scott Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210,...
1pAAa6 – Soundscape of washroom equipment
Lucky Tsaih,Yosua W. Tedja,An-Chi Tsai, Julie ChenDepartment of Architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,Taipei, Taiwan. 1pAAa6 - Soundscape of washroom equipment and its applicationJun 25, 2017173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of...
3aMU5 – How stones make musical sounds?
(Undercut or side cut of bars for making musical sound?) Junehee Yoo – yoo@snu.ac.krSeoul National UniversityKwanak-ro 1, Kwanak-guSeoul, 08826Republic of Korea Thomas D. Rossing– rossing@somecompany.comSome Company123 Industry DriveIndustry Town, OH 54321 Popular...
2aNSa1 – Tranquillity Trails in the city?
Greg Watts – g.r.watts@bradford.ac.ukFaculty of Engineering and InformaticsUniversity of BradfordBradfordWest YorkshireUKBD7 1DP Popular version of 2aNSa1. Tranquillity in the city—Building resilience through identifying, designing, promoting, and linking restorative...
1aID1 – Machine learning allows automatic recognition of everyday sounds
Tuomas Virtanen - tuomas.virtanen@tut.fiTampere University of TechnologyKorkeakoulunkatu 1FI-33720 TampereFINLAND Popular version of 1aID1 - Computational analysis of acoustic events in everyday environmentsTo be presented on Sunday morning, June 25, 2017, 8:20,...
2pSC7 – Seeing is Treating: The Opti-Speech Clinical Trial at CHSC
Jennell Vick Popular version of 2pSC7. Seeing is treating: 3D electromagnetic midsagittal articulography (EMA) visual biofeedback for the remediation of residual speech errors.Presented at the 173rd ASA Meeting Lips, teeth, and cheeks are the key ingredients of every...
1pSC12 – Is it blow or below? How well can second-language learners distinguish between words that differ in syllable count?
Keiichi Tajima – tajima@hosei.ac.jpDept. of PsychologyHosei University2-17-1 Fujimi, Chiyoda-kuTokyo 102-8160Japan Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel – sshuf@mit.eduResearch Laboratory of ElectronicsMassachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts AvenueCambridge, MA...
1aAAa2 – Can humans use echolocation to hear the difference between different kinds of walls?
David Pelegrin Garcia – david.pelegringarcia@kuleuven.beKU Leuven, Dept. Electrical EngineeringKasteelpark Arenberg 10 - box 24463001 Leuven, Belgium Monika Rychtarikova – monika.rychtarikova@kuleuven.beKU Leuven, Faculty of ArchitectureHoogstraat 519000 Gent, Belgium...
How Can MRI Contribute to Cleft Palate Care?
Jamie Perry perryja@ecu.edu East Carolina University College of Allied Health SciencesDept. of Communication Sciences and DisordersEast Carolina UniversityGreenville, NC 27834(252) 744-6144 Presented Monday morning, June 26th, 2017As part of a speaker panel session,...
2pAO6 – Ocean tides are conductors of underwater icy concerts
Oskar Glowacki – oglowacki@igf.edu.plInstitute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of SciencesKsiecia Janusza 6401-452 Warsaw, Poland Popular version of paper 2pAO6 “An acoustic study of sea ice behavior in a shallow, Arctic bay”Presented Monday afternoon, June 26,...
2pAAb1 – The acoustics of rooms for music rehearsal and performance: The Norwegian approach
Jon G. Olsen - jon.olsen@musikk.noCouncil for Music Organizations in Norway, Oslo, Norway Jens Holger Rindel - jens.holger.rindel@multiconsult.noMulticonsult, Oslo, Norway Popular version of 2pAAb1, “The acoustics of rooms for music rehearsal and performance – the...
2aAB3 – A Loud, Ultrasonic Party
Quantifying complex bat calls to understand how bats echolocate in groups Contact: Yanqing Fu, yfu@saintmarys.edu Yanqing Fu, Laura N. KloepperDepartment of Biology, Saint Mary’s College,Notre Dame, IN 46556 Popular version of paper 2aAB3, “First harmonic shape...
3pAB5 – How Canaries Listen to Their Song
Adam R. Fishbein – afishbei@terpmail.umd.eduShelby L. LawsonGregory F. BallRobert J. Dooling University of Maryland4123 Biology-Psychology BuildingCollege Park, MD 20742 Popular version of paper 3pAB5Presented Tuesday afternoon, June 27, 2017173rd ASA Meeting, Boston...
My personal head related transfer function
Sebastián Fingerhuth - sebastian.fingerhuth@pucv.clDanny Angles - danny.angles.a@mail.pucv.clJuan Barraza - juan.barraza.b@mail.pucv.cl School of Electrical EngineeringPontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoAv. Brasil 2147 – Valparaíso - Chile Click here to read...
S&N-S Light: the system that makes the noise light
Sonja Di Blasio– sonja.diblasio@polito.itGiuseppina Emma Puglisi– giuseppina.puglisi@polito.itGiuseppe Vannelli – giuseppe.vannelli@polito.itLouena Shtrepi– louena.shtrepi@polito.itMarco Carlo Masoero - marco.masoero@polito.itArianna Astolfi– arianna.astolfi@polito.it...
2pAO10 – What Can We Learn from Breaking Wave Noise?
Grant B. Deane – gdeane@ucsd.eduM. Dale Stokes – dstokes@ucsd.eduScripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD,La Jolla, CA 92093-0206 David M. Farmer - farmer.david@gmail.comSchool of Earth and Ocean Sciences,Victoria BC, V8P 5C2, Canada Eric D’Asaro -...
Lay Language Papers organized by meeting
187th Meeting: Virtual, 18-22 Nov 2024
186th Meeting: Ottawa, CAN 13-17 May 2024
185th Meeting: Sydney, AUS 4-8 Dec 2023
184th Meeting: Chicago, IL 8-12 May 2023
183rd Meeting: Nashville, TN 5-9 Dec 2022
182nd Meeting: Denver, CO 23-27 May 2022
181st Meeting: Seattle, WA 29 Nov – 3 Dec 2021
180th Meeting: Virtual – Acoustics in Focus 8-10 Jun 2021
179th Meeting: Virtual – Acoustics Virtually Everywhere 7-11 Dec 2020
178th Meeting: San Diego, CA 2-6 Dec 2019
177th Meeting: Louisville, KY May 2019
176th Meeting: Victoria, CAN Nov 2018
175th Meeting: Minneapolis, MN May 2018
174th Meeting: New Orleans, LA Dec 2017
173rd Meeting (8th Forum Acusticum): Boston, MA Jun 2017
172nd Meeting (5th Joint Meeting of ASA and ASJ): Honolulu, HI Dec 2016
171st Meeting: Salt lake City, UT May 2016
170th Meeting: Jacksonville, FL Oct 2015
169th Meeting: Pittsburgh, PA May 2014
168th Meeting: Indianapolis, IN Oct 2014
Archive
167th Meeting: Providence, RI May 2014
166th Meeting: San Francisco, CA Dec 2013
165th Meeting: Montreal, CAN (21st ICA) Jun 2013
164rd Meeting: Kansas City, MO Oct 2012
163rd Meeting: Hong Kong, CHN (8th Meeting of ASC and 11th WESPAC) May 2012
162nd Meeting: San Diego, CA Nov 2011
161st Meeting: Seattle, WA May 2011
160th Meeting: Cancun, MEX (2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics) Nov 2010
159th Meeting: Baltimore, MD Apr 2010
158th Meeting: San Antonio, TX Oct 2009
157th Meeting: Portland, OR May 2009
156th Meeting: Miami, FL Nov 2008
155th Meeting: Paris, FRA (5th Forum Acusticum, 9th CFA, 7th Euronoise, 9th ECUA) July 2008
154th Meeting: New Orleans, LA Dec 2007
153rd Meeting: Salt Lake City, UT Jun 2007
152nd Meeting: Honolulu, HI (4th Joint Meeting ASA and ASJ) Dec 2006
151st Meeting: Providence, RI Jun 2006
150th Meeting: Minneapolis, MN Oct 2005
149th Meeting: Vancouver, CAN (Joint meeting of ASA and CAA) May 2005
148th Meeting: San Diego, CA Nov 2004
147th Meeting: New York, NY May 2004
146th Meeting: Austin, TX Nov 2003
145th Meeting: Nashville, TN May 2003
144th Meeting: Cancun, MEX (1st Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics) Dec 2002
143rd Meeting: Pittsburgh, PA Jun 2002
142nd Meeting: Ft. Lauderdale, FL Dec 2001
141st Meeting: Chicago, IL Jun 2001
140th Meeting: Newport Beach, CA Dec 2000
139th Meeting: Atlanta, GA May 2000
138th Meeting: Columbus, OH Nov 1999
137th Meeting: Berlin, GER (2nd EAA Convention & 25th DAGA Conference) Mar 1999
136th Meeting: Norfolk, VA Oct 1998
135th Meeting: Seattle, WA (16th ICA) Jun 1998
134th Meeting: San Diego, CA Dec 1997
133rd Meeting: State College, PA Jun 1997
132nd Meeting: Honolulu, HI (3rd Joint Meeting of ASA and ASJ)) Dec 1996
131st Meeting: Indianapolis, IN May 1996
130th Meeting: St. Louis, MO Dec 1995