Dr. Michelle C. Vigeant
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

RESEARCH – Room Acoustics

• Sense of listener envelopmentin concert halls and associated objective parameter late lateral sound level (GLL)

  • Vigeant, M.C., Celmer, R.D., Ford, M.D., and Vogel, C.K. (2010). Investigation of the subjective impression of listener envelopment from both binaural recordings and auraliations (A). J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 128: 2410
  • Vigeant, M.C., Celmer, R.D. and Dick, D.A. (2010). Investigation of the correlation between late lateral sound level and total acoustic absorption, and an overview of a related subjective study. Int. Sym. on Rm. Acoust., Melbourne, Australia
  • Dick, D.A., and Vigeant, M.C. (2010). Examining the relationship between total acoustic absorption and late lateral sound level, GLL (A). J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127: 2002
• Just noticeable difference of clarity index (C80)
  • Vigeant, M.C., and Celmer, R.D. (2010). Effects of experimental design on the results of clarity-index just-noticeable-difference listening tests. 20th Int. Cong. of Acoust., Sydney, Australia
  • Giacomoni, C.B., Jasinski, C.M., Celmer, R.D.,and Vigeant, M.C. (2010). Comparison of two just-noticeable-difference test methods for clarity index, C80 (A). J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127: 2027
  • Ahearn, M.J., Schaeffler, M.J., Celmer, R.D., and Vigeant, M.C. (2009). Investigation of the just noticeable difference of the clarity index for music, C80 (A). J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 126:2288
• Motif length and auditory memory
  • Edwards, S.S., Ignatiuk, D.A., Celmer, R.D.,and Vigeant, M.C. (2010). The effect of motif lenght in reverberation-time listening tests using the ABX test method (A). J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,127: 2027
• Source directivity and auralizations
  • Vigeant, M.C., Wang, L.M., and Rindel, J.H. (2011). Objective and subjective evaluations of multi-channel auralization technique as applied to solo instruments. Appl. Acoust. 72(6):311-323
  • Vigeant, M.C., Wang, L.M., and Rindel, J.H. (2008). Investigations of orchestra auralizations using the multi-channel multi-source auralization technique. Acta Acustica united with Acustica 94(6):866-882
  • Wang, L.M., and Vigeant, M.C. (2008). Evaluations of output from room acoustic computer modeling and auralization due to different sound source directionalities. Appl. Acoust. 69:1281-1293

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