ICBEN 2017 Papers
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Keynotes & Symposia
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID |
| Keynote | Noise sensitivity, health and mortality - a review and new analyses | Stephen Stansfeld | 4161 |
| Keynote | Hearing beyond the limit: Measurement, perception and impact of infrasound and ultrasonic noise | Christian Koch | 4163 |
| Keynote | Noise-induced hearing loss and its impact on quality of life | Stefan Launer | 4162 |
| Keynote | The increase of aircraft noise annoyance in communities: Causes and consequences | Rainer Guski | 4164 |
| Symposium | Short and Long Term Effects of Transportation Noise Exposure (SiRENE): an interdisciplinary approach (SiRENE Minisymposium) | Martin Röösli | 3894 |
| Symposium | Silence at work - noise at home: a case study (Satellite Symposium STO AG) | Andreas Niermann | 4336 |
Subject area 1: Noise-induced hearing loss
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID |
| Oral | Noise-induced hearing loss: a three-year update | Małgorzata Pawlaczyk-Łuszczyńska | 3955 |
| Oral | Significant Hearing Loss is Probably Not Part of Normal Aging | Daniel Fink | 2331 |
| Oral | Hearing conservation in Switzerland – long-term perspective and latest results | Beat W. Hohmann | 3812 |
| Oral | Hearing tests combined with noise awareness action in elementary schools | Sonja Jeram | 3690 |
| Oral | Objectification of auditory and non-auditory effects of environmental noise from different sources in a sample of Slovak students | Alexandra Filová | 3621 |
| Oral | Personal audio devices use patterns associated with risks of hearing loss and compromised road safety among medical students in Delhi, India. | Saurav Basu | 3645 |
| Oral | Hearing Function in Music Player Users: Georgian Material | Nana Saralidze | 2768 |
| Oral | Music exposure and hearing loss in Switzerland – a long-term perspective | Beat W. Hohmann | 3762 |
| Oral | The hearing status of employees exposed to noise generated by ultrasonic welding devices | Adam Dudarewicz | 3620 |
| Oral | Hearing loss and morbidity among construction site workers in National Capital Region of Delhi, India | Anshul Shukla | 3998 |
| Oral | Noise exposure and hearing threshold levels in call center operators | Małgorzata Pawlaczyk-Łuszczyńska | 3664 |
| Oral | The effect of occupational noise on hearing-related symptoms - exploring mediating and modifying effect of annoyance and stress | Sofie Fredriksson | 3941 |
| Oral | Cost-benefit analysis in occupational exposure to noise | Paolo Lenzuni | 3572 |
| Oral | Adverse auditory effects associated with the combined exposure to jet fuels and noise | Adrian Fuente | 4049 |
| Poster | Sustainable hearing loss prevention | Judith Sobel | 3773 |
| Poster | Looking at Non-Occupational Noise-Induced Hearing Loss | Neil DiSarno | 3692 |
| Poster | Noise pollution in Dhaka city of Bangladesh | Mohammed Abul Kalam | 2517 |
Subject area 2: Noise and communication
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID |
| Oral | Improving communication in noise: Some recent developments | Anthony Brammer | 3779 |
| Oral | For persons with normal hearing, can speech understanding in noise be influenced by a history of temporary threshold shift? | Anthony Brammer | 3780 |
| Oral | Effects of noise type on listening effort: relationship between subjective rating and objective measures | Chiara Visentin | 3603 |
| Oral | Communicating with low-cost hearing protectors: hear, see and believe | Annelies Bockstael | 3646 |
| Oral | Effect of personal safety equipment (hearing protection and helmet) on the localization of reverse alarms | Chantal Laroche | 3975 |
| Oral | Disability Rights Aspects of Ambient Noise for People with Auditory Disorders | Daniel Fink | 2332 |
| Oral | The effect of acoustic absorbing wall panels in classrooms | Carsten Svensson | 3675 |
| Poster | A building code on indoor noise environment for the hearing impared senior's aging at home | Yang Ki Oh | 3793 |
| Poster | The localization of the sound sources: a new approach based on the divergence of the sound pressure level | Valentin Buzduga | 4034 |
Subject area 3: Non-auditory health effects of noise
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID | Oral | Recent progress in the field of non-auditory health effects of noise – trends and research needs | Yvonne de Kluizenaar | 3705 |
| Oral | The role of noise sensitivity in acute physiological effects of noise | Kim White | 3663 |
| Oral | Noise sensitivity modifies the effect of recorded noise on sympathovagal balance in young men | Katarina Paunovic | 3661 |
| Oral | Studying noise sensitivity on the brain level | Marja Heinonen-Guzejev | 3754 |
| Oral | Night-time aircraft noise and vascular diseases - the Cologne-Bonn Airport Study | Eberhard Greiser | 3660 |
| Oral | Blood pressure monitoring (NORAH study): Exposure to maximum sound levels of nocturnal aircraft noise and self-measured blood pressure | Anja zur Nieden | 3969 |
| Oral | Residential exposure to traffic noise and leisure-time sports– a population-based study | Nina Roswall | 3602 |
| Oral | Long-term exposure to traffic noise in relation to development of obesity – A cohort study | Göran Pershagen | 3816 |
| Oral | Long-term exposure to road, railway, and aircraft noise levels and their association with incidence of obesity and different obesity parameters. | Maria Foraster | 3824 |
| Oral | Association between night-time road traffic noise and perturbations in glucose control may be modified by sleep-related parameters | Ikenna C. Eze | 3810 |
| Oral | Residential traffic noise exposure and colorectal cancer incidence – a cohort study | Nina Roswall | 2476 |
| Oral | Exposure to traffic noise and risk for febrile seizure: a cohort study | Mette Sørensen | 2505 |
| Oral | Burden of disease from road traffic noise and air pollution in Oslo, Norway | Gunn Marit Aasvang | 3614 |
| Oral | Long-term exposure to source-specific transportation noise levels and temporal noise characteristics in association with arterial stiffness | Maria Foraster | 3819 |
| Oral | Road traffic noise and incident cardiovascular disease: a joint analysis of HUNT, EPIC-Oxford and UK Biobank | Yutong Cai | 3910 |
| Oral | Long-term exposure to road traffic noise and risk of heart failure: a cohort study | Mette Sørensen | 2500 |
| Oral | WHO evidence review of the cardiovascular and metabolic effects of environmental noise: blood pressure in children | Elise van Kempen | 3851 |
| Oral | Noise at school independently raises the odds for hypertension in children and adolescents | Goran Belojevic | 3600 |
| Oral | Are environmental noise and air pollution in middle-sized cities risk factors for preterm delivery? | Frédéric Mauny | 4075 |
| Oral | Road traffic noise and air pollution exposures and birth outcomes in London | Rachel B Smith | 3844 |
| Oral | Association between road traffic noise exposure and cortisol metabolites in newborns | Manuella Lech Cantuaria | 3701 |
| Oral | Traffic noise and determinants of saliva cortisol levels in adolescents | Alva Wallas | 3592 |
| Oral | Possible long-term implications of being in a preschool noise environment, from a child and personnel perspective. | Kerstin Persson-Waye | 3818 |
| Oral | A questionnaire survey on health effects of aircraft noise for residents living in the vicinity of Narita International Airport: The results of physical and mental health effects. | Masaaki Hiroe | 3617 |
| Oral | The effects of aircraft noise exposure on psychological distress: the results of the DEBATS study in France | Clémence Baudin | 2444 |
| Oral | The relationship between aircraft sound levels, noise annoyance and mental well-being: An analysis of moderated mediation | Dirk Schreckenberg | 3635 |
| Oral | Health impact assessment of noise in Rome, Italy | Francesca Mattei | 3892 |
| Poster | An Ecological Study to assess relationship between noise pollution and cardiovascular disease in India | Charu Kohli | 3587 |
| Poster | Cardiometabolic risks of exposure to different environmental noise sources in vulnerable population | Lubica Argalasova | 3677 |
| Poster | Stress and cardiovascular reactions to temporary noise experiences in healthy males | Shkurti Enkelejda | 2340 |
| Poster | Reported general health and aircraft noise exposure: the results of the debats study in France | Clémence Baudin | 2443 |
Subject area 4: Effects of noise on cognition, performance and behaviour
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID | Oral | Review of research on the effects of noise on cognitive performance 2014-2017 | Andreas Liebl | 4017 |
| Oral | When and why does a long reverberation time improve comprehension and recall? | Staffan Hygge | 3609 |
| Oral | The relationship between aircraft noise and reading: Mediator and moderator effects | Jan Spilski | 3518 |
| Oral | Effects of noise on reading: What do we know about this topic with respect to the occupational context? | Helga Sukowski | 3703 |
| Oral | Effects of noise on errors, injuries and subjective health of hospital staff | Andrew Smith | 2458 |
| Oral | Impact of noise on communication and concentration during surgeries | Sandra Keller | 3889 |
| Oral | How does staff perceive the sound environment in operating theaters and treatment rooms with the present standards and building regulations? | Maria Quinn | 3669 |
| Oral | Effective open learning landscapes and the well-being of teachers and students | Colin Campbell | 3741 |
| Oral | Writing performance in open-plan study environments: a laboratory study | Ella Braat-Eggen | 3665 |
| Oral | Listening efficiency in university classrooms: a comparison between native and non-native listeners | Chiara Visentin | 3604 |
| Oral | Health effect of variation in noise absorption in open-plan office: a cross-over design field study | Nils Rage | 3760 |
| Oral | Distraction distance predicts noise disturbance in open-plan offices | Valtteri Hongisto | 4058 |
| Oral | A simple sound metric for evaluating sound annoyance in open-plan offices | Patrick Chevret | 3570 |
| Oral | Why are Background Telephone Conversations Distracting? | John Everett Marsh | 3647 |
| Oral | Improving both cognitive performance and subjective evaluations in open-plan offices by combining partial maskers | Sabine Schlittmeier | 4019 |
| Oral | Evaluation of measures for the reduction of impairment by background speech at office workplaces: Comparison of measurements and listening tests | Andreas Liebl | 4024 |
| Oral | The effect of acoustic design on performance in office rooms | Valtteri Hongisto | 4057 |
| Oral | Effects of Noise on Risky Decision Making and Decision Confidence | Marc Syndicus | 3947 |
| Oral | Context specific analysis of the sound environment at the workplace and its meaning for a task | Jikke Reinten | 3862 |
| Oral | An Attempt to Predict ISE by a Spectral Estimator | Toros Ufuk Senan | 3626 |
| Poster | Occupational noise exposure and the risk for work-related injuries: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Angel Dzhambov | 2448 |
| Poster | The Bigger the Better and the More the Merrier? Realistic Office Reverberation Levels Abolish Cognitive Distraction by Multiple-Voice Speech | François Vachon | 2823 |
| Poster | Interrelations between noise and patients’ critical states during surgeries | Sandra Keller | 3896 |
| Poster | Dental equipment noise on dental anxiety and its noise reduction | Cheuk Ming Mak | 3508 |
| Poster | Prior and current noise exposure: effects on university students' wellbeing and attainment | Andrew Smith | 2489 |
Subject area 5: Effects of noise on sleep
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID | Oral | Review of research on the effects of noise on sleep over the last 3 years | Sarah McGuire | 3999 |
| Oral | WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A systematic review on environmental noise and effects on sleep | Sarah McGuire | 3943 |
| Oral | The significance of autonomic arousals during sleep | Barbara Griefahn | 3939 |
| Oral | Spindle density and arousability from acoustic stimulation during sleep | Franziska Rudzik | 3913 |
| Oral | Temporal variation of transportation noise during sleep impacts on glucose metabolism | Laurie Thiesse | 3938 |
| Oral | Pilot Study Examining the Effects of Aircraft Noise on Sleep in Communities Near Philadelphia International Airport | Mathias Basner | 3957 |
| Oral | A comparison of the effects of night time air traffic noise on sleep at Cologne/Bonn and Frankfurt Airport after the night flight ban | Uwe Müller | 3726 |
| Oral | Association between residents’ attitude towards air traffic and their objective sleep quality at Frankfurt Airport. | Eva-Maria Elmenhorst | 3893 |
| Oral | Investigating the impact of nocturnal aircraft noise on children’s sleep, cognitive performance, and annoyance: The MIDAS-study | Susanne Bartels | 3750 |
| Oral | Nocturnal road traffic noise and children’s sleep duration | Kjell Vegard Weyde | 3623 |
| Oral | The effects of aircraft noise exposure on subjective sleep quality: the results of the DEBATS study in France | Ali Mohamed Nassur | 2441 |
| Oral | Rail traffic noise and sleep disturbances | Tonje Veronika Antonsen | 3618 |
| Oral | The effect on sleep of nocturnal exposure to noise and vibration from rail traffic | Irene van Kamp | 3557 |
| Oral | On the possibility of deriving a common dose response relationsship of sleep disturbance due to vibration from field and laboratory studies. | Kerstin Persson-Waye | 3899 |
| Oral | Wind Turbine Noise Effects on Sleep: The WiTNES study | Michael Smith | 3704 |
| Oral | Epidemiological Study of Aircraft Noise using Sheet-Shaped Sleep Meter: Measurement of Motility, Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate | Junta Tagusari | 4053 |
| Oral | On the application of two statistical approaches to establish noise exposure-response relationships from repeated binary observations | Beat Schäffer | 3583 |
| Poster | Cross-country comparison of aircraft noise-induced sleep disturbance | Sarah McGuire | 3948 |
| Poster | FAA studies on the effects of aircraft noise on sleep | Natalia Sizov | 3558 |
| Poster | Higher noise tolerance may be associated with more refreshing sleep | Daniel Fong | 3559 |
| Poster | An Affordable Recording Instrument for the Acoustical Characterisation of Human Environments | Huub Bakker | 3654 |
Subject area 6: Community response to noise and noise annoyance
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID | Oral | Recent progress in the field of community response to noise | Sabine Janssen | 3983 |
| Oral | Effects of noise on the wellbeing of rail staff | Andrew Smith | 2460 |
| Oral | The opening of a new terminal building and its influences on community response around Hanoi Noi Bai International Airport: Comparison between Arrival and Departure sides | Thao Linh Nguyen | 3569 |
| Oral | Annoyance response to helicopter noise | Sabine Janssen | 3985 |
| Oral | Exposure, annoyance, and sensitivity to noise in informal settlements in the Western Cape province, South Africa | Martina Ragettli | 4006 |
| Oral | The noise pollution perception in the city of Milan: analysis of registered complains by the population | Giovanni Zambon | 3963 |
| Oral | Bias due to Nonresponse in Noise Annoyance Surveys? | Heidi Bruderer Enzler | 3577 |
| Oral | Secondary analysis of social survey on community response to transportation vibration in Japan | Shigenori Yokoshima | 3792 |
| Oral | A review of the human exposure-response to amplitude-modulated wind turbine noise: health effects, influences on community annoyance, methods of control and mitigation | Michael Lotinga | 3809 |
| Oral | Noise annoyance caused by large wind turbines – a dose-response relationship | Valtteri Hongisto | 4059 |
| Oral | Standardized questions and scales for social surveys | Truls Gjestland | 2449 |
| Oral | First results of the development of a multiple-item annoyance scale (MIAS) | Dirk Schreckenberg | 3634 |
| Oral | Comparison of annoyance response measured with ICBEN 5-point verbal and 11-point numerical scales in Japanese and Vietnamese | Thulan Nguyen | 3992 |
| Oral | How to test noise annoyance models based on psychoacoustic indices using socio-acoustic survey data? The case of aircraft noise annoyance models | Catherine Marquis-Favre | 3566 |
| Oral | Annoyance due to railway noise and vibrations: A comparison of two methods of collecting annoyance scores | Philéas Maigrot | 3694 |
| Oral | Community response to mixed traffic noise sources: assessing the overall effects of a soundscape | Peter Lercher | 3958 |
| Oral | Effects of floor impact noise on people – annoyance and physiological responses | Sang Hee Park | 2453 |
| Oral | Dose-response curves for satisfactory sound insulation between dwellings | Jens Holger Rindel | 3813 |
| Oral | Perceived sound quality in dwellings in Norway | Anders Løvstad | 3814 |
| Poster | What is a safe noise level for the public? | Daniel Fink | 2330 |
| Poster | Living environment survey along Hokuriku Shinkansen railway: Social survey conducted one year after opening | Takashi Morihara | 3739 |
| Poster | Community Tolerance Level for transportation noises derived from Socio-Acoustic Survey Data Archive, SASDA | Makoto Morinaga | 3876 |
| Poster | Annoyance due to railway noise before and after the elevation of the conventional railway. | Tsubasa Shimokawatoko | 3874 |
| Poster | Attitudes towards authorities and aircraft noise annoyance. Sensitivity analyses on the relationship between non-acoustical factors and annoyance. | Dirk Schreckenberg | 3636 |
| Poster | Community response to environmental noise: A preliminary soundscape assessment of highland environment | Nazli Che Din | 3608 |
| Poster | Problems of noise annoyance in the newly built apartment buildings in Slovakia | Lubica Argalasova | 3678 |
| Poster | Soundscape pleasantness in urban places: dimensions and relation with health aspects | Karmele Herranz-Pascual | 3761 |
| Poster | Association between different indices of greenspace “exposure” and noise annoyance in youth | Angel Dzhambov | 3699 |
| Poster | A Case Study on Perception of Noise Policy and Relation to Noise Complaints | Nilgün Akbulut Coban | 3922 |
| Poster | Quantifying socioacusia in Uruguayan young people | Alice Elizabeth Gonzalez | 4070 |
Subject area 7: Noise policy and economics
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID | Oral | Review of environmental noise policies and economics in 2014-2016 | Dietrich Schwela | 3611 |
| Oral | Review of the effect of transport noise interventions on human health: policy implications and future research | Alan Lex Brown | 3679 |
| Oral | Economic impacts of noise and hearing loss in America | Richard Neitzel | 4054 |
| Oral | Best practice for cost/benefit based decisions on abatement of traffic noise | Bert Peeters | 3732 |
| Oral | Managing ‘kaman’ (noise) impacts and expectations in a changing city centre, Wollongong, Australia. | Suri Mora | 3509 |
| Oral | Application of noise mapping in an Indian opencast mine for effective noise management | Veena Manwar | 3730 |
| Oral | Road traffic noise exposure scenarios 2015 - 2035 for Gothenburg, Sweden | Mikael Ögren | 4063 |
| Oral | Willingness to pay in the Rhine-Main region according to aircraft noise, railway noise, road traffic noise | Kerstin Giering | 3579 |
| Oral | Respite from Aircraft Noise | Nicole Porter | 3936 |
| Oral | One Justice for All? Noise Pollution and Different Notions of Distributive Justice | Heidi Bruderer Enzler | 3649 |
| Oral | Socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in transport-related outdoor noise at residence in London | Daniela Fecht | 3934 |
| Oral | Environmental noise challenges and policies in low and middle income countries | Dietrich Schwela | 3612 |
| Oral | The Noise Landscape: understanding the spatial impacts of noise in European airport peripheries | Eirini Kasioumi | 4355 |
| Poster | How to establish a better information disclosure system on noise and environment - Concept proposals of information disclosure and a noise experience tool - | Mari Ueda | 3799 |
Subject area 8: Noise exposure assessment in health effect studies
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID | Oral | The inadequacy of the A-frequency weighting for the assessment of adverse effects on human populations | Bruce Rapley | 3873 |
| Oral | Predicting aircraft noise annoyance: exploring noise metrics other than Lden | Oscar Breugelmans | 3670 |
| Oral | A statistical model to predict sound level differences between in- and outdoors | Barbara Locher | 3763 |
| Oral | Assessing the relationship of indoor and outdoor noise at residential dwellings in London | Faridah Naim | 3945 |
| Oral | Validation of the exposure modelling within SiRENE by long-term measurements | Felix Schlatter | 3949 |
| Oral | Towards an uncertainty analysis for parametric aircraft system noise prediction | Lothar Bertsch | 3937 |
| Oral | Uncertainty of calculated noise levels and its influence on exposure-response-relationship in the NORAH-project | Manfred Liepert | 3970 |
| Oral | Addressing confounding by air pollution in studies of noise and health: the relationship of measured noise and ultra-fine particles | John Gulliver | 3841 |
| Oral | Uncorrelated components of Noise and PM exposure give opportunities to disentangle health effects of noise and air pollution. | Luc Dekoninck | 3935 |
| Oral | Development of a national job exposure matrix for occupational noise in the US | Richard Neitzel | 4055 |
| Poster | Health risk assessment for large industrial cities population under the noise exposure | Dmitrii Koshurnikov | 3931 |
Subject area 9: Special topics related to noise effects
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID | Oral | Overview of the topic “Interactions with other agents and contextual factors” | Adrian Fuente | 4052 |
| Oral | Consciousness of Individual Noise Pollution Behavior of the German Population | Jördis Wothge | 3805 |
| Oral | The influence of audio-visual aptitude on audio-visual interaction in appraisal of the environment | Dick Botteldooren | 3838 |
| Oral | Good acoustic architecture for streetscapes | Inès Neuhaus | 3898 |
| Oral | Effects of anthropogenic sound on terrestrial ecosystems: a review of recent evidence | Guillaume Dutilleux | 3926 |
| Oral | Ears II - Development of an ultrasound measurement technique for use in occupational safety | Christian Ullisch-Nelken | 3585 |
| Poster | The “Hearwig“ as hearing protector for musicians – a practical investigation | Andrea Wolff | 3616 |
Subject area 10: Low frequency noise and vibration
| Format | Title | Primary author | ID | Oral | Case Report: Cross-Sensitisation to infrasound and low frequency noise | Bruce Rapley | 3872 |
| Oral | Hearing threshold measurements of infrasound combined with audio frequency sound | Elisa Burke | 3574 |
| Oral | Effect on Measured Hearing Threshold of Low Frequency Noise by Various Test Methods | Toshiya Kitamura | 3956 |
| Oral | Frequency Weighting for the Evaluation of Human Response to Low-Frequency Noise based on the Physiological Evidence of the Vestibular System | Junta Tagusari | 4050 |
| Oral | Evaluation of the health effects related to low frequency noise and infrasound from wind farms: results and conclusions from an independent collective expertise in France. | Philippe Lepoutre | 2487 |
| Oral | Evaluation of Wind Turbine Noise in Japan | Akira Shimada | 3584 |
| Oral | Resolution Improvement of Low Frequency Noise Sources in Acoustic Holography | Hee-Min Noh | 3581 |
| Oral | Project review: elastic decoupling of a large roller grinder | Thomas Schönherr | 3586 |
| Oral | Burden of disease from exposure to low frequency noise: a Dutch inventory. | Irene van Kamp | 3691 |
| Oral | Annoying Low Level Sound | Rudolf Bütikofer | 3625 |
| Oral | A new methodology for investigating IFLN complains | Steven Cooper | 3659 |
| Oral | Study on human reactions to vibration from blasting activities nearby dwellings | Iiris Turunen-Rindel | 3909 |
| Oral | A Citizen Science Initiative: Acoustical Characterisation of Human Environments | Huub Bakker | 3653 |
| Oral | Regulating low frequency noise from industry - a practical approach | Gordon Downey | 3656 |
| Oral | Vibration measurement as a tool to solve a murder | David Eager | 2829 |
| Poster | The different evaluation-methods of the wind farm noise in Switzerland - Computer models / IN-SITU measurements | Victor Desarnaulds | 2382 |
| Poster | Exploring perception of vibrations from rail: an interview study. | Laura Maclachlan | 3722 |
| Poster | Laboratory measurement of vibration and secondary noise transmission loss for rubber elastomer mats | Hui Li | 3797 |
| Poster | Experiences of a Polyurethane-Manufacturer with the Elastic Decoupling of Machines | Thomas Schönherr | 3601 |
| Poster | An investigation on the interaction analysis of beam - active isolator with low suspension frequency | Khairiah Turahim | 3631 |
| Poster | Reducing playground injuries by increasing HIC sampling rate from 8 kHz to 20 kHz | David Eager | 2411 |
| Poster | Double bounce vibration on trampolines and associated injuries | David Eager | 2410 |