A healthy, energy-efficient and comfortable indoor environment, a review

P Šujanová, M Rychtáriková, T Sotto Mayor, A Hyder - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Design strategies for sustainable buildings, that improve building performance and avoid
extensive resource utilization, should also promote healthy indoor environments. The …

Influence of classroom acoustics on noise disturbance and well-being for first graders

A Astolfi, GE Puglisi, S Murgia, G Minelli… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Several studies have shown so far that poor acoustics inside classrooms negatively affects
the teaching and learning processes, especially at the lowest grades of education. However …

Gender differences in vocal doses among occupational voice users: a systematic review of literature and meta-analysis

ÁP Atará-Piraquive… - Logopedics Phoniatrics …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background Occupational voice users such as teachers, singers, and broadcasters have
high vocal demands increasing the risk for developing voice disorders. Among occupational …

Noise, age, and gender effects on speech intelligibility and sentence comprehension for 11-to 13-year-old children in real classrooms

N Prodi, C Visentin, E Borella, IC Mammarella… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of type of noise, age, and gender on
children's speech intelligibility (SI) and sentence comprehension (SC). The experiment was …

Differences in weeklong ambulatory vocal behavior between female patients with phonotraumatic lesions and matched controls

JH Van Stan, DD Mehta, AJ Ortiz, JA Burns… - Journal of Speech …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose Previous work using ambulatory voice recordings has shown no differences in
average vocal behavior between patients with phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction and …

Evaluation of the starting point of the Lombard effect

P Bottalico, II Passione, S Graetzer… - Acta Acustica United …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Speakers increase their vocal effort when their communication is disturbed by noise. This
adaptation is termed the Lombard effect. The aim of the present study was to determine …

Effects of speech style, room acoustics, and vocal fatigue on vocal effort

P Bottalico, S Graetzer, EJ Hunter - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Vocal effort is a physiological measure that accounts for changes in voice production as
vocal loading increases. It has been quantified in terms of sound pressure level (SPL). This …

Examination of human interaction on indoor environmental quality variables: A case study of libraries at the University of Alberta

C Shum, Y Alipouri, L Zhong - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
It is well-known that indoor environmental quality (IEQ) can be affected by the occupants and
their activities in indoor environments. What is essential to be investigated is the impact of …

Effectiveness of acoustic treatments and PA redesign by means of student activity and speech levels

D De Salvio, D D'Orazio - Applied Acoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
The assessment of the acoustic quality of learning spaces traditionally concerns rooms'
objective parameters and not the dynamical behavior of students during lectures. In the …

The effect of classroom capacity on vocal fatigue as quantified by the vocal fatigue index

RE Banks, P Bottalico, EJ Hunter - Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2018 - karger.com
Objective: Previous research has concluded that teachers are at a higher-than-normal risk
for voice issues that can cause occupational limitations. While some risk factors have been …