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A state-of-the-art, systematic review of indoor environmental quality studies in work-from-home settings
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in working from home worldwide, making the workfrom-home (WFH) setting a crucial context for studying the influence of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) on workers' well-being and productivity. A nar ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024Robust tunable acoustic impedance control on electroacoustic resonators for aircraft noise reduction
Air traffic noise emissions are responsible for a significant part of the overall environmental noise, especially in the vicinity of airports. Exposure to environmental noise is known to negatively impact health and to be associated with cardiovascular dis ...
EPFL2023WINC: A Wireless IoT Network for Multi-Noise Source Cancellation
Haitham Al Hassanieh, Jiaming Wang, Junfeng Guan
This paper introduces Wireless IoT-based Noise Cancellation (WINC) which defines a framework for leveraging a wireless network of IoT microphones to enhance active noise cancellation in noise-canceling headphones. The IoT microphones forward ambient noise ...
New York2023Perfluorocarbon emulsion enhances MR-ARFI displacement and temperature in vitro: Evaluating the response with MRI, NMR, and hydrophone
Mohamed Farhat, Davide Bernardo Preso, Ryan Holman
Sonosensitive perfluorocarbon F(8)TAC(18)-PFOB emulsion is under development to enhance heating, increase thermal contrast, and reduce treatment times during focused ultrasound tumor ablation of highly perfused tissue. The emulsion previously showed enhanc ...
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023Corona discharge actuator as an active sound absorber under normal and oblique incidence
Hervé Lissek, Stanislav Sergeev, Thomas Humbert
In the majority of active sound absorbing systems, a conventional electrodynamic loudspeaker is used as a controlled source. However, particular situations may require an actuator that is more resistant to harsh environments, adjustable in shape, and light ...
2022PID-like active impedance control for electroacoustic resonators to design tunable single-degree-of-freedom sound absorbers
Hervé Lissek, Maxime Volery, Xinxin Guo
Sound absorption at low frequencies still remains a challenge in both scientific research and engineering practice. Natural porous materials are ineffective in this frequency range, as well as acoustic resonators which present too narrow bandwidth of absor ...
2022Plasma-based Electroacoustic Actuator for Broadband Sound Absorption
Environmental noise, mostly related to human activities, has an immense impact on public health. The development of noise reduction technologies is paramount in addressing this problem. Because of practical and economic reasons, a compact, broadband, light ...
EPFL2022A framework for occupancy detection and tracking using floor-vibration signals
In sensed buildings, information related to occupant movement helps optimize important func-tionalities such as caregiving, energy management, and security enhancement. Typical sensing approaches for occupant tracking rely on mobile devices and cameras. Th ...
2022A phenomenological extended-reaction boundary model for time-domain wave-based acoustic simulations under sparse reflection conditions using a wave splitting method
In environmental acoustics and in room acoustics, many surfaces exhibit extended-reaction (ER) behavior, i.e., their surface impedance varies with the angle of the incident sound wave. This paper presents a phenomenological method for modeling such angle d ...
ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021Using footstep-induced vibrations for occupant detection and recognition in buildings
Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai, Slah Drira
Occupant detection and recognition support functional goals such as security, healthcare, and energy management in buildings. Typical sensing approaches, such as smartphones and cameras, undermine the privacy of building occupants and inherently affect the ...
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