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Early Bird closure date extended until: Midnight Wednesday 14 July!
The New Zealand Acoustical Society is delighted to invite you to attend the International Symposium on Sustainability in Acoustics (ISSA 2010) being held in Auckland, New Zealand 29-31 August 2010.
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Colin Campbell spoke with the organisers preparing Inter-noise 2011 in Osaka, Japan. He spoke with Congress President Ichiro Yamada, Head of Aviation Environment Research Centre, Airport Environment Improvement Foundation and Congress Secretary General Yamamoto Kohei, the Managing Director of Kobayasi institute of Physical Research who is also President of the Acoustical Society of Japan .
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Pierre Chigot made an interview with Nicolas Trompette, who is working at INRS. INRS is a French Institute competent in the area of occupational risk prevention.
Nicolas, presented a paper about noise in warehouses and also has a specific interest in sound in open plan solutions.
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Dr. Maria Klatte had a lecture named "Effects of classroom acoustic on performance and well being in elementary school Children: A field Study". She presented the interesting results and had a great response after her lecture.
Holger Brokmann took the chance to talk with her about the results and the importance of acoustic treatments in school buildings for children.
Dr. Maria Klatte
Listen to the Interview in german.
(SOUNDFILE)
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Pauli Pallaskorpi caught up with Valtteri, a Senior Research Scientist, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health during the conference at Inter-noise 2010. Click here for more about Valtteri's work
Within 1km of the Congress centre the imposing road and rail bridge over the Tagus "Ponte sobre o Tejo"
Listen to the unique soundfile which characterises the popular area surrounding the bridge.
Colin Campbell spoke with Vitor Rosao Director at Doutorando Environmental Acoustics who explained....
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Carsten Svensson caught up with Claus at the Odeon stand to discuss their latest developments.
One hour before she is expected to chair the session on sound in healthcare envrionments, we catch up with Kerstin Persson Waye, professor in occupational and environmental medicine with Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. We ask her to discuss the upcoming session and her lecture in particular.
Per Larsen spoke with Jesper at Inter-Noise about his research project in Copenhagen regarding "Risk factors of noise annoyance in teachers in schools with classrooms characterised by different reverberation times"
Guus Klamerek discusses Lau Nijs' paper following the "Classroom Acoustics" session yesterday. Lau's paper explored "Optimum absorption and vocal output in classrooms with U50"
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In the atrium of the conference building, Katrin met up with Lotta Johansson, who is a PhD study with Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenbrug University. Lotta will make a presentation on the relation between sound and ICU delirium in intensive care units.(ICU). Katrin is particularly interested in her lecture and Lotta likes to share her experience from the study with Acoustic Bulletin. Listen to the interview with Lotta.
An interview with prof. Anna Preis, Departament of Environmental Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
You presented at Internoise 2010 a paper entitled “Speech intelligibility as an annoyance index”. What’s the reason of such idea?
- Noise annoyance is very subjective matter and individual estimations can vary a lot depending on mood or personal tolerance to noise of subjects. Moreover...
Berit Lindahl is one of the two projectleader for a research programme called healing environments in intensive care units. The programme is a cooperation between Borås University College and Sahlgrenska Academy, both in Sweden.
We asked Berit to give us a little bit of insight in the different studies that are planned.
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It's hard to not have heard the sound of vuvuzela's, to some the most annoying sound in the world. Judge yourself and listen here
Read here the explanation of an acoustic expert on how the Vuvuzela's make their sound.
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Per Larsen spoke with Richard Ballinger and Lisbeth Rasmussen of COWI today following his paper regarding "How can large reverberant rooms be used for group conversation". Per made an interview with Richard after his lecture.
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