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Above, an audibility map showing the intelligibility that would be experienced by a listener in every part of a room with a lot of echoes. Intelligibility is best (red) near where the person is talking and weakest at the blue area which is close to a noise source. The software can make similar predictions for any number and distribution of noise sources. (Credit: Cardiff U.)
CARDIFF U. (UK)—Sound-mapping software based on human hearing could take the overhead noise out of open office and meeting spaces. Continue…
Thursday, March 11, 2010 13:32 - 5 Comments
Science & Technology - Sep 21, 2009 19:20 - 3 Comments
Design database: What’s in a name?
CORNELL (US)—Jan Jennings, professor of design and environmental analysis at Cornell University, has produced the first searchable online database for names of contemporary design with images of existing buildings, which, she says, have for the most part gone unnamed and undocumented for decades, and in some cases, centuries. (more…)
