Schedule for the 1996 Psychoacoustics Summer Workshop
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General Workshop Info
Week 1:
Monday, June 24
- Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
- Historical: views of perception
- Opening remarks (Brent)
- System Administrator (Fernando Lopez-Lezcano)
- Virtural Reality is not new (Brent)
- Technological art, artistic technology (Bob Adams)
- Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-3:30):
- Project description, and initial ideas for projects
- Around the room introductions
- Tour of the Archive of Recorded Sound (3:30-5:00)
Tuesday, June 25
- Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
- Physiological:
- Physiology of the auditory and haptic sensors. (Brent)
- Psychological:
- Behavioral Psychology, Cognitive Psychology (Dan)
- Gestalt principles of grouping with demonstrations (Dan)
- Demonstrations of apparent motion (Dan)
- Special Session (1:00-2:00):
- Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
- History of synthesis technology. With DX7, VL1, & NeXT demos (2:00-3:00)
- Hands on events (in rotating groups) (3:00-4:00)
- Tape-editing (Sile)
- Studio mixing, microphone lineup, effects (Dan)
- Convene in Studio for Event Recording. (4:00-5:00).
Wednesday, June 26
- Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
- Experiment design and execution (Dan)
- Wave Physics I (Brent and Bill Putnam)
sine waves
Fourier analysis
- Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
- Laboratory demonstration of the HRTF and the size of sine waves.
- Source localization experiment: Medial localization with keys.
- Horizontal source localization: Radar ears.
- Environmental filtering: Navigation by ear, echo location
- Wednesday evening: Cocktail Party effect (Group experiment)
Thursday, June 27
- Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
- Wave physics II (Bill and Brent)
delay lines
physical modeling
- Bark scale, dB scale, contours of equal loudness (Craig)
- Cognitive Psychology wrap-up (Dan)
- Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-3:30):
- Spectrum Analysis (in groups):
- Fun with a spectrum analyzer
- Highest Audible frequency
- Graphing personal Fletcher-Munsen equal-loudness curves
- Introduction to Facilities (in rotating groups) (3:30-5:00)
- Moose usage (Sile)
- BioMuse (Bill)
- MIDI Studio / NeXT sound demo (Craig)
- Radio Drum (Fernando)
Friday, June 28
- Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
- Voice lectures by Perry Cook (Princeton)
- Paradox of the Piano (Brent)
- VRML (Kenny)
- Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
- Voice acoustics: getting in touch with your hidden articulators. (Brent)
- Echo Experiment and Simultaneity Study (Brent)
- Precedence Effect (Craig)
- Project update (participants present project proposals)
Saturday, June 29
- Instructors available for consulting on projects
Week 2:
In the second week, half of each laboratory session is devoted to
assisted work on individual projects.
Monday, July 1
- Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
- Perceptual:
- Haptic Interface Design (Brent)
- Motor control: The virtual wall (Brent)
- Distance perception (Craig)
- Flanging and reverberation (Sile)
- The Doppler effect (Brent)
- Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
- Armchair Psychophysics
- Human Telerobot
- Projects
Tuesday, July 2
- Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
- Masking, pitch and phase by Malcolm Slaney (Interval Research)
- 3D Audio by Beth Wenzel (NASA)
- Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
- Periodicity and pitch perception (JRP3) (Brent)
- Missing Fundamental (Craig)
- Critical Bands (sines to noise) (Craig)
- Projects
Wednesday, July 3
- Morning Lecture (9:00-12:00):
- Psychophysics experiment design Karon MacLean (Interval Research)
- Interface Design Bill Verplank (Interval Resarch)
- Afternoon Laboratory (2:00-5:00):
- Fieldtrip to Immersion Corp.
- Projects
Thursday, July 4
- Field trip to the Musèe Mechaniquè and the Camera
Obscura (Cliff House); picnic, then to the Tactile Gallery at the
Exploratorium
in San Francisco. Watch the fireworks in Redwood City
on Brent's boat. Back to Stanford around 11:00 pm.
Friday, July 5
- (9:00) Closing Comments (Brent, Craig and Sile)
- Participant project demonstrations
- diploma/doughnut distribution.
Mail errors/corrections to: craig@ccrma.stanford.edu