Ecophon Acoustic Bulletin

From the 2nd until the 7th of September 2007, the 19th International Congress on Acoustics, is to be held in Madrid. The ICA conference is a 4-yearly conference on acoustics and is considered to be the biggest of its kind.

Ecophon will througout the week arrange live coverage of the event through Acoustic Bulletin.

Follow the live reporting of our experiences, speakers and guests interviews, lecture summaries, snapshots of the ambiance, etc.

Both to read, to look at and to listen to!

We look forward to meet you on the web!

Many (world leading) acousticians and researchers will gather at one or more of the bigger acoustic conferences this summer. ICA conference will take place in Madrid in the first week of September and soon after that ISRA symposium will be in Sevilla. Ecophon will present several papers during the conferences. Some of the abstracts can already be accessed:

ICA:
Markus Oberdörster - "Modern teaching" needs modern conditions – room acoustics as and ergonomic factor

Carsten Svensson - Duth Practical Guideline NPR 3438 - Ergonomics - Noise at the workplace
Pierre Chigot - Alternative room acoustic descriptors for open plan offices - progression in standardization

ISRA:
Erling Nilsson - Sound decay and steady-state level in rooms with absorbent ceiling treatment
Nils-Åke Andersson - Classroom acoustics measurement and evaluation">

Posted by Marc Janssen at 9:00 AM
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The Speech and Hearing Group is a specialist group within the UK Institute of Acoustics (IOA) and they will organise a meeting on speech and hearing in learning environments (29 January 2008). Speech and hearing is crucial for learning in educational environments. Acoustics and noise have a direct effect on speech perception and vocal stress in the classroom etc. The meeting will be of interest to anyone concerned with providing optimal conditions for speech and hearing in schools and other learning establishments. For more details, read here!

Posted by Carsten Svensson at 11:16 AM
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How noisy is your surrounding environment and how sensitive are you to noise? Researchers at the Institute for Occupational Physiology / The Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the University of Dortmund (IfADo) in Germany are looking at these individual differences within the framework of a European research network called "SILENCE". By using an internet questionnaire they hope to learn more about how sensitive people are to noise. If you want to know more about this project, read this. Test your noise sensitivity here! You have several language options and you will receive feedback.

Posted by Carsten Svensson at 10:15 AM
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