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Older children and teenagers with bilateral cochlear implants often have poor spatial hearing because they cannot fuse sounds from the two ears. This deficit jeopardizes speech and language development, education, and social well-being.
Deborah Vickers +13 more
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Environmental sustainability and environmental protection are key to shaping the built environment. The use of environmentally sustainable materials in architecture is essential to transform urban centers into modern, sustainable cities, reducing the ...
Virginia Puyana-Romero +2 more
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The sensory perception of products influences the relationship of potential users or buyers with these products. Sound quality is part of this sensory experience and is critical for products such as sports or utility vehicles as the sound conveys the ...
Benghanem Abdelghani +3 more
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Sofigait—A Wireless Inertial Sensor-Based Gait Sonification System
In this study, a prototype of an inertial sensor-based gait sonification system was tested for the purpose of providing real-time gait feedback on the knee angle.
Dagmar Linnhoff +2 more
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Twist, tilt and stretch: From isometric Kelvin cells to anisotropic cellular materials
Simple geometric distortions applied to the isometric Kelvin cell structures, (the tetrakaidecahedron), are shown to result in equivalent materials with anisotropic Hooke's tensors.
Huina Mao +7 more
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Electric vehicles (EVs) are very quiet at low speed, which can be hazardous for pedestrians, especially visually impaired people. It is now mandatory (since mid-2019 in Europe) to add external warning sounds, but poor sound design can lead to noise ...
Tom Souaille +3 more
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Sound Design Ideation: Comparing Four Sound Designers' Approaches
The craft of sonic interaction design (SID) for new digital objects is a non-trivial task. A deeper understanding of sound design practices employed by professional sound designers and Foley artists offers a rich source of knowledge which may inform future designs.
Selfridge, Rod, Pauletto, Sandra
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Mapping the Soundscape in Communicative Forms for Cultural Heritage: Between Realism and Symbolism
The dimension of sound plays a central role as a form of cultural representation. Sound is a means of knowledge and experiential involvement, as it is inextricably linked to place and space, mind and body, cultural context and emotion.
Eva Pietroni
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Does a building contain its own Voice? And if so, can that Voice be discovered, transformed and augmented by soundscape design? Barry Blesser’s writings on acoustic space, discuss reverberation and resonant frequencies as providing architectural spaces ...
Jordan Lacey
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Flying a Quadcopter—An Audio Entertainment and Training Game for the Visually Impaired
With the increase in the number of sensory substitution devices, the engineering community is confronted with a new challenge: ensuring user training in safe virtual environments before using these devices in real-life situations.
Silviu Ivascu +5 more
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