During the first week in June, the 60th BNAM was held in Tallinn, Estonia with around 250 acousticians attending. The conference took place at the University of Tallinn and among the keynote speakers was Professor Trevor Cox (below) who had a great presentation about how to popularise acoustics. Prof.Trevor Cox University of Salford Included in […]
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Key International Acoustic Conferences in 2014
Here are some of the most significant International acoustic conferences coming up in 2014…. If you are hoping to present, abstracts need to be in soon for ICBEN & BNAM!ICBEN 2014, the 11th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, will be held in Nara, Japan from 1-5th June. The Congress is co-organized […]
Acoustic inspiration from a South African classroom
Andries van Renssen, Principal at Abbots College in Pretoria East, South Africa. Interesting to listen to how different the Vuvuzela sounds in a classroom with poor acoustics vs a classroom with very good acoustics. In fact the school described the transformation from an “acoustically hopeless” room into an effective learning environment in Abbotts College.Ancy Atticula, […]
Highly intelligible background speech of 55 dB(A) impairs cognitive performance
Reported live from ICA Madrid Sabine Schlittmeier Sabine Schlittmeier, psychologist at Eichstätt University in Germany, presented her paper called Background speech varying in intelligibility – Effects on coginitive perfromance and perceived disturbance. Sabine presented three experiments, which tested the impact of background speech varying in intelligibility and/or level on basic cognitive functions (verbal short-term memory, […]
