Lay Language Papers
Acoustics '08 Paris

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The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at Acoustics '08, to be held June 30 - July 4, 2008 in Paris, France. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.


MONDAY, JUNE 30


How sound from human activities affects marine mammals (1aID1) by Peter Tyack


Noise and Perceived Privacy - Flexible Office Space Matters (1pAAa3) by C. Bodin Danielsson


Philharmonic Acoustics (1pAAb4) by Harold Marshall, Joanne O. Valentine and Thomas Scelo


Listening to Antarctic Ice Breaking from Australia (1pAOa3) by Alexander Gavrilov and Binghui Li


Sound reconstructed: the greatest Silbermann Organ having given back its original sound profile (1pMUc2) by Christian Ahrens, Sebastian Schmidt, and Jonas Braasch


Do vacationers in Spain have the right to silence? (1pNSb2) by Mariló Jiménez Mateos


Challenges and Opportunities for Noise Mapping in the United States (1pNSd2) by Kenneth Kaliski


Combined Sensors for Landmine Detection (1pPAc1) by Waymond R. Scott, Jr., Gregg D. Larson, Ali C. Gurbuz, James H. McClellan and Kangwook Kim


Ultrasound in the Dairy (1pPAd8) by Shobha Muthukumaran, Sandra Kentish, Muthupandian Ashokkumar, and Geoff Stevens


What is happening in your brain when your listening mode is switched? (1pPPa16) by Makio Kashino, Hirohito M. Kondo and Minae Okada


Understanding dialects in the American Midwest (1pSCb5) by Cynthia G. Clopper


An Intelligent Noise Meter (1pSPa3) by Jon Stammers and David Chesmore


Accurate measurement of distance and velocity using ultrasonic waves (1pSPb6) by Shinnosuke Hirata, Minoru Kuribayashi Kurosawa and Takashi Katagiri



TUESDAY, JULY 1


Good Sounding Rock Venues "Eat" the Bass! (2aAAb3) by Niels Werner Larsen and Eric Thompson


Movements and grip influence the contact force and sound in drumming (2aMUb1) by Sofia Dahl and Eckart Alternmüller


How to play the first bar of Rhapsody in Blue (2aMUb6) by Jer-Ming Chen and John Smith


The Next Generation of Artificial Heads (2aPPa4) by Janina Fels and Michael Vorländer


Can colors influence loudness? (2aPPa15) by Daniel Menzel, Elias Faccinelli, and Hugo Fastl


Automatic Detection and Correction of Detuned Singing (2aSCa4) by Michal Lech and Bozena Kostek


We Can't Help Imitating the Talkers We Hear - and See (2aSCb2) by Lawrence D. Rosenblum, Rachel M. Miller, and Kauyumari Sanchez


Speak to your TV, it can understand you (2aSCc4) by Maurizio Omologo


Relating the hospital sound environment to occupant psychological and physiological response (2pAAc2) by Kerstin Persson Waye, Erica Ryherd, Berit Lindahl, and Ingegerd Bergbom


Acoustic Emissions for the Prediction of Avalanches (2pPAa6) by Pierre de Guibert and Vincent Gibiat


How Tires Make Noise (2aSAb1) by Dan Borza and Ioana Nistea


Acoustics of a selection of famous 18th century opera houses: Versailles, Markgräfliches, Drottningholm, Schwetzingen (2pAAb3) by Alban Bassuet


Can you tell a 'pea' from a 'bee' if you are a dyslexic child? (2pSCa3) by Souhila Messaoud-Galusi, Valerie Hazan, and Stuart Rosen



WEDNESDAY, JULY 2


High fidelity on the line: please say "aah" (3aMUa7) by Sten Ternström


"Smart Foams" for Enhancing Acoustic Absorption (3aSAb3 & 5aSAb10) by Pierre Leroy, Alain Berry, Noureddine Atalla and Philippe Herzog


What MP3 Players Do to Teenagers (3pPPb3) by Adriano Farina



THURSDAY, JULY 3


Green Roofs for Quietness (4aNSc7) by Timothy Van Renterghem and Dick Botteldooren


Brain regions involved in speaking contribute to conscious awareness of speech (4aSCb2, 4pSCb34) by Matt Davis


Babies' brain waves and cognitive control skills are linked to learning of second-language speech sound information (4aSCb9) by Barbara T. Conboy, Jessica A. Sommerville and Patricia K. Kuhl


Acoustic Characterization of the Ancient Theatre at Syracuse (4pAAa3) by Marco Gullo, A. La Pica, G. Rodono’ and V. Vinci


Pleistocene Hearing (4pAAa12) by Ignacio Martínez Mendizábal, R. Quam, M. Rosa, P. Jarabo, C. Lorenzo, and J.L. Arsuaga


The spotted hyena whoops, giggles and groans. What do the groans mean? (4pABd1) by Frédéric Theunissen, Steve Glickman, and Suzanne Page


Bones in the light of ultrasound (4pEAb2) by Pascal Laugier


Protecting Underwater Archeological Sites (4pEAb2) by Tuncay Akal



FRIDAY, JULY 4


Sound Insulation for Homes (5aAAb2) by Sean Smith


Grand vs Upright Pianos (5aMUe17) by Grigorios Plitsis


The Sound of the African Thumb Piano (kalimba) (5aMUf1) by David M.F. Chapman


Sound of the Hang (5aMUf3) by David Wessel, Andrew Morrison, and Thomas Rossing


Whispering, singing or shouting of erupting volcanoes: the music of gigantic volcanic bubbles (5aPAa3) by Sylvie Vergniolle


"Smart Foams" for Enhancing Acoustic Absorption (5aSAb10 & 3aSAb3) by Pierre Leroy, Alain Berry, Noureddine Atalla and Philippe Herzog


The question of disguised voices (5aSCa5) by Patrick Perrot and Gérard Chollet


Brain regions involved in speaking contribute to conscious awareness of speech (5aSCc30, 5aSCc39, 5aSCc44) by Matt Davis


Sleepy People Don't Speak Clearly (5aSCc31) by Suzanne Boyce, Joel MacAuslan, Ann Bradlow and Rajka Smiljanic


Deaf children can hear well, but not always in classrooms due to acoustics (5pNSa3) by Frank Iglehart


Bio-inspired method to distinguish man-made objects in the ocean (5pUWb8) by Karim G. Sabra, Manell E. Zakharia, Mario Zampolli, Henrik Schmidt and William A. Kuperman


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