Call for Papers

The officers and team chairs of ICBEN will organize plenary and parallel sessions on the 9 areas below. Research papers in these and related fields are welcome.

Team 1: Noise-induced hearing loss

Chairs:: Mariolka Sliwinska-Kowalska
Prof. Adrian Davis

Hearing loss, Tinnitus, and balance problems associated with noise
Effects of occupational noise
Social noise level diagnostics
Screening, clinical evaluation and treatment of noise-induced hearing loss
Molecular genetics of noise-induced hearing loss and Tinnitus

Team 2: Noise and communication

Chairs:: Prof. Chantal Laroche
Anthony Brammer

Speech perception in noise
Situational awareness in noise
Effects of hearing protection on speech perception and situational awareness
Auditory performance in noisy workplaces
Speech privacy
Speech understanding in the classroom
Speech communication in older adults
Speech communication in children
Speech communication with auditory impairment
Perception and localization of warning sounds
Models for predicting speech intelligibility
Models for predicting the audibility of warnings
Communication aids

Team 3: Non-auditory effects of noise

Chairs:: Dr. Toshihito Matsui
Dr. Yvonne de Kluizenaar

Physiological effects of noise
Cardiovascular effects of noise
Mental health effects of noise
Effects of noise on birth outcomes and early child development

Team 4: Influence of noise on performance and behavior

Chairs:: Patrik Sorqvist
Andreas Liebl

Effects of noise on performance and behavior
Field and laboratory studies of the effects of noise on performance, behavior and cognition
Effects of noise on performance and behavior in the work place (e.g., schools, offices and hospitals) and in dwellings
Developing and evaluating methods (e.g. restoration, sound masking) to reduce the negative impact of noise on performance and behavior
Basic research on how and why people are distracted by background sound

Team 5: Effects of noise on sleep

Chairs:: Dr. Mark Brink
Dr. Mathias Basner

Exposure-response relationships for noise-induced sleep disturbances
Laboratory and field studies on the effects of noise on sleep
Individual differences in reactions to noise during sleep
Substantiation of night noise protection concepts
Noise indicators and noise metrics for the prediction of noise impact on sleep
Methods and instrumentation in noise-related sleep studies
Long term impacts of night noise exposure on health and wellbeing

Team 6: Community response to noise

Chairs:: Prof. Soogab Lee
Dr. Sabine A. Janssen

Positive aspects of environmental sounds
Development of supplementary indicators for noise annoyance
A better understanding of the annoyance response to explain large survey differences
Evaluation of occupational noise (other than hearing loss and physiological reactions)
Connection between community response to noise and noise policies
Community response to noise in developing countries
Cross-cultural studies
Community response to wind turbine noise
Community response to noise exposure changes

Team 7: Noise and animals

Chairs:: Dr. Paul Lepper

Team 8: Interactions with other agents and contextual factors

Chairs:: Prof. Tony Leroux
Dr. Ronny Klaeboe

Team 9: Policy and economics

Chairs:: Lawrence Finegold
Prof. Abigail Bristow
Dr. Dieter Schwela

Local, regional and global noise policies
Noise policies in emerging and developing countries
Environmental noise management
Environmental noise impact assessment
Strategic environmental noise assessment
Cost-benefit analysis of environmental noise management, impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment
Sustainable transport and environmental noise
Sustainable urban development and environmental noise
Economic impact of noise
Noise exposure criteria

Support for young scientists

The Michiko So Finegold Memorial Trust and International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) will support several young scientists from developing countries for a part of their travel fee to attend ICBEN2014 in Nara. The amount per person will be around 500 EURO at the maximum. If you want to apply for support from the fund, please indicate your interest in the space provided on the abstract-submission web page. The organizing committee will review your abstracts and decide the adopters. The fund will be paid in Nara.