Jonathan’s ASA San Diego presentation (“Perceived annoyance of Mach-cutoff flight ground signatures compared to common transportation sounds”) received a Technical Committee on Noise Best Paper Award!
SPRAL attends ASA San Diego!
Michelle, Jonathan and Zane all attended the 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego, Dec 2-6 2019!
Jonathan presented his talk 1pNS8: “Perceived annoyance of Mach-cutoff flight ground signatures compared to common transportation sounds” – the abstract can be found here. (View all SPRAL conference presentation abstracts here!)
Zane managed to play at the ASA Jam again!
Nick and Zane attend AES NYC 2019
Nick and Zane attended the 2019 Audio Engineering Society Convention in New York City!
They saw and heard some cool things… including but not limited to trying on a Magic Leap One for the first time, as part of a student poster demo…
Michelle presents at Acoustics Week in Canada 2019!
Michelle travelled back to her hometown of Edmonton, AB for Acoustics Week in Canada 2019, where she gave a keynote speech on October 10th!
Matthew and Michelle attend ICA and ISRA 2019!
Matthew and Michelle made their way to Germany for two conferences – the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) in Aachen…
and International Symposium on Room Acoustics 2019 (ISRA) in Amsterdam! Matthew presented at both, winning a Young Acousticians Award at ISRA.
Michelle co-chaired sessions at both conferences with Stefan Weinzierl. After the conferences, Matthew and Michelle attended performances at a few concert halls in Germany & Austria – without taking measurements!!!
Matthew confirmed that, indeed, when choosing content to listen to in world-renowned halls, orchestral performances are more appealing to the ear than repeated sine sweeps.
Michelle and Zane attend CHRG 2019!
Michelle and Zane just got back from the Concert Hall Research Group conference/summer institute in Troy, NY! Lots of networking, catching up with old friends, and tours at EMPAC at RPI and Troy Savings Bank Music Hall!
SPRAL goes to ASA Louisville Spring 2019
All current members of SPRAL made it to the Acoustical Society of America conference in Louisville, KY on May 13-17th 2019.
Nick Ortega presented in the 4pNS session (Advances and Applications in Sound Quality Metrics), giving a talk titled “Identifying metrics to predict annoyance due to Mach-cutoff flight ground signatures”.
Martin Lawless (who is now a SPRAL alumni) presented in the same session with a talk titled “Effect of trading-off office background and intermittent noise levels on performance, annoyance, distraction, and stress”. This covered a study that he worked on alongside his Ph.D. topic and was taken over by current SPRAL member and co-author Zane Rusk. Office noise perceptual studies in SPRAL will continue with a new student this Fall!
Our very own Legendre G, the Lobster, met the ASA President Lily Wang:
The costume was acquired as a reference to the Amanda Show skit “Bring in the dancing lobsters.” This reference was not apparent to most people present.
In addition, Zane played at the ASA JAM with fellow Penn State Acoustics Program students!
Matthew Neal presents at ASA Victoria Fall 2018
Matthew Neal presented on his work in the 4aAA session “Microphone Array Applications in Room Acoustics” with a talk titled “The room impulse response in time, frequency, and space: Mapping spatial energy using spherical array beamforming techniques”
SPRAL goes to Hawaii for ASA Honolulu
SPRAL traveled to Honolulu Hawaii for the 5th joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ).
The third day of the conference was a busy one for SPRALites with 4 presentations on that day:
Matthew Neal presented the details of the design of a compact spherical directional loudspeaker, with SPRALite co-authors of Molly Smallcomb (REU summer 2016) and Dave Dick.
Dave Dick discussed the basis for a new metric to predict listener envelopment.
Kristina Sorensen presented her work on the perception of warmth in concert halls.
Michelle Vigeant, along with co-author Andrew Morrison (Joliet Junior College), summarized findings from a survey sent out to K-12 teachers who use the ASA’s educational activity kit.
Last, but not least, on the fourth day of the conference, Peter presented an update on his M.S. work on the use of acoustical parameters to predict emotions conveyed through speech. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Pamela Cole in the Department of Psychology at Penn State, with co-authors Pan Liu, Rick Gilmore and Rachel Wolf.
SPRAL goes to France for IOA’s Auditorium Acoustics 2015
SPRAL participates in the Institute for Acoustics (IOA) Auditorium Acoustics Symposium in Paris, France! Dave Dick gave a presentation, and Martin Lawless and Matthew Neal presented posters. Also in attendance from SPRAL were Michelle Vigeant and Kristina Sorensen.