Baltic-Nordic Acoustic Conference in Gothenburg
In the beginning of November Ecophon sponsored and participated in BNAM at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden. This was a 2-days event organized by the Swedish Acoustical Society (SAS) and the Scandinavian Vibration Society SVIB). About 250 persons participated, mainly from the Nordic countries. Presentations will soon be available at http://www.svib.se.
Ecophon presented 4 papers
- A reverberation time formula for rooms with ceiling treatment, by Erling Nilsson :Download file
- Speech privacy descriptors for offices - Do they work in Europe, by Pierre Chigot.
- Classroom acoustics. Systematic measurements, Nils-Åke Andersson. Download file
- Classroom acoustics. A listening test, by Erling Nilsson. Download file
One of the most interesting presentations was the key note speech from prof. Stig Arlinger from Linköping University in Sweden, with the title "Speech recognition in noise".
The day before BNAM an interesting symposium took place, "Man and Noise", organized by the Swedish noise network. Abstracts and powerpoint presentations from this symposium can be downloaded from the following link http://www.noisenetwork.org/bnam2006.htm
Next BNAM will take place 2008 in Reykjavik at Iceland.
