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Optimizing a virtual speech display: Comments on Brungart and Simpson, ICAD 2003

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ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) archive
Volume 2 , Issue 4 (October 2005) table of contents

Pages: 437 - 441

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:1544-3558

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Douglas S. Brungart	Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, OH
Brian D. Simpson	Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, OH

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In our 2003 ICAD Paper “Optimizing the Spatial Configuration of a Seven Talker Speech Display,” we described a hybrid near-far spatial configuration that maximizes performance in a multitalker listening task. In this brief addendum, we describe our scientific motivation for that study, describe a supplementary experiment that extended the earlier work to two additional spatial configurations, and place the results of the study in the context of current and future research in audio displays.

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