Durand
Begault
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Durand R. Begault
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field CA 94035-1000
Email: dbegault@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Phone: (650) 604-3920
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Biography
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Durand R. Begault Ph.D. is internationally known for his
work in the field of virtual acoustic “3-D audio” systems and
displays. He has been associated with NASA Ames Research Center since
1988. Dr. Begault’s research activities include development and
evaluation of new audio and multi-modal technologies for aeronautic and
space applications. These technologies involve psychophysical evaluation
of spatial hearing, speech intelligibility, and performance in virtual
environment systems; room acoustic analysis and simulation; and
improvement of communications and warning systems.
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Review Boards and Standard Committees
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Review board member, Journal of the Audio Engineering
Society.
Chairman, Audio Engineering Society, Technical Committee on Perception and
Subjective Evaluation of Audio Signals; member of Standards Committee
SC-03-12 on Forensic Audio.
Review Board (guest), Journal of the Human Factors Society, Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Experimental Psychology.
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Professional Societies
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Acoustical Society of America
Audio Engineering Society
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Institute of Noise Control Engineering
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Honors and Awards
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Audio Engineering Society Fellowship Award for
contributions to spatial hearing, 2002
NASA Ames Honor Award, contractor category, 1999
Five NASA Certificates of Recognition for Inventive Contributions,
1992-2001
Three NASA Garner Space Act Awards for US patents, 1994, 2002
Three NASA Director’s Discretionary Funding awards 1992, 1997, 2001
NASA Ames Research Center Nielsen Award for best basic research proposal,
1992
National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Ames Research Center,
1988-90
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, U.C.S.D. Computer Audio Research Laboratory,
1987.
University of California Regent's Fellowship, U.C.S.D., 1981-2
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Acacemic Positions
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2003 McGill University Guest lecturer, Sound Recording
program, Music Department
1996 San Francisco State University, Conceptual Design Program, Department
of Art.
Visiting Lecturer, Multimedia Technology
1995-7 University of California Santa Cruz Extension, Department of
Science and Technology.
Visiting Lecturer, 3-D audio technology course.
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Patents
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Begault, D. R. (1995) "Multi-channel spatialization system for audio
signals". U.S. patent 5,438,623.
Begault, D. R. (1992). "Head related transfer function
pseudo-stereophony". U.S. patent 5,173,944.
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Publications by Year
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D. R. Begault, M. R. Anderson, B. U. McClain, & J. D. Miller (2005) Audio-Visual Communication Monitoring System for Enhanced Situational Awareness, "Working Together: R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security Conference", Boston, MA, 27-28 April 2005
D. R. Begault (2004) Application-driven design of auralization systems, Paper presented at the Special session on "Acoustics of Virtual Environments", 147th Acoustical Society of America meeting, New York, 24-28 May 2004
D. R. Begault (2004) Binaural Hearing and Intellibility in Auditory Displays, Ellis, S. R.( Chair .), Virtual Environments for Training and Interfaces to Spatial Instruments. Invited panel presentation, 75 th Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), May 3-6, Anchorage, AK
D. R. Begault, B. U. McClain, & M. R. Anderson (2004) Early Reflection Thresholds for Anechoic and Reverberant Stimuli within a 3-D Sound Display, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, JP.
D. R. Begault (2003) Measurement and perception of 'moving' late reverberant fields, J. Voetman (Chair.), Large room acoustics. Workshop conducted at the Audio Engineering Society 114th Convention, Amsterdam, NL.
B. D. Adelstein, D. R. Begault, M. R. Anderson, & E. M. Wenzel (2003) Sensitivity to Haptic-Audio Asynchrony, Proceedings, 5th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ACM, Vancouver, Canada, 2003, pp. 73-76.
D. R. Begault, M. R. Anderson, & B. U. McClain (2003) Spatially-modulated auditory alerts, Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Auditory Display, Boston, MA July 6-9 2003
D. R. Begault (2002) Challenges and solutions for realistic room simulation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (abstracts) 111(5): 2440
A. Krukowski, D. R. Begault, E. M. Wenzel, & L. S. Stone (2002) Human smooth pursuit eye movement responses to visual, auditory, and imagined target motion, The Society for the Neural Control of Movement Twelfth Annual Meeting, Naples, Florida (poster) 404.15.
D. R. Begault (2002) Introduction to Psychoacoustics. Part II. Binaural Hearing, Workshop presentation, Audio Engineering Society 112th meeting (Munich) and 113th meeting (Los Angeles).
A. Jost, & D. R. Begault (2002) Observed effects of HRTF measurement signal level, Audio Engineering Society 21st International Conference: Architectural acoustics and sound reinforcement, St. Petersburg, RU. p. 302-306
D. R. Begault, E. M. Wenzel, & M. R. Anderson (2001) Direct comparison of the impact of head tracking, reverberation and individualized head-related transfer functions on the spatial perception of a virtual speech source, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 2001. 49: p. 904-916.
D. R. Begault, B. U. Mclain, & M. R. Anderson (2001) Early Reflection Thresholds for Virtual Sound Sources, Proceedings of the 2001 International Workshop on Spatial Media, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, Oct. 25-26, 2001
A. E. Krukowski, D. R. Begault, E. M. Wenzel, & L. S. Stone (2001) Human oculomotor responses to virtual auditory motion, Society for Neuroscience 31st Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
D. R. Begault, E. M. Wenzel, L. S. Stone, & M. R. Anderson (2000) Direct comparison of the impact of head tracking, reverberation, and individualized head-related transfer functions on the spatial perception of a virtual speech source, Proceedings of the 108th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Paris, Feb. 2000, New York: Audio Engineering Society, Preprint 5134
E. M. Wenzel, & D. R. Begault (1999) Are individualized head related transfer functions required for auditory information displays?, [Invited Paper] Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105, pp 1035.
D. R. Begault (1999) Virtual acoustic displays for teleconferencing: intelligibility advantage for , Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 47, 824-828.
D. R. Begault (1998) An introduction to Auralization and Psychoacoustics, Conference Acoustique Virtuelle Œ98 - le son 3d et ses applications, Pôle Universitaire Leonard de Vinci, Paris. [CD-ROM]. Courbevoie, FR: Euphonia.
D. R. Begault, & E. M. Wenzel (1998) Assessment of Noise Exposure in Commercial Aircraft Cockpits, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 94035-1000
D. R. Begault (1998) Fundamentals of Acoustics. Psychoacoustics and Hearing. Acoustical Measurements, In C. M. Salter (Ed.), Acoustics. Architecture, Engineering, The Environment. New York: McGraw-Hill
D. R. Begault, S. R. Ellis, & E. M. Wenzel (1998) Headphone and Head Mounted Visual Displays for Virtual Environments, Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 15th International Conference (Audio, Acoustics, and Small Spaces), Snekkersten, DK, 213-217.
D. R. Begault, S. R. Ellis, & E. M. Wenzel (1998) Headphone and head-mounted visual displays for virtual environments, Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 15th International Conference (Audio, Acoustics, and Small Spaces), Snekkersten, DK, 213-217.
J. S. Abel, & D. R. Begault (1998) Methods for room acoustic analysis and synthesis using a monopole-dipole microphone array, Proceedings of the 1998 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering (InterNoise 98), Christchurch, NZ [CD-ROM], paper 123.
D. R. Begault, E. M. Wenzel, L. L. Tran, & M. R. Anderson (1998) Octave-band thresholds for Modeled Reverberant Fields, Audio Engineering Society 104th Convention, Amsterdam, NL (Preprint 4662). New York: Audio Engineering Society.
D. R. Begault, & J. S. Abel (1998) Studying room acoustics using a monopole-dipole microphone array, Proceedings of the16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, 369-370.
D. R. Begault, E. M. Wenzel, L. L. Tran, & M. R. Anderson (1998) Survey of Commercial Airline Pilot's Hearing Loss, Perceptual and Motor Skills, 86, 258.
D. R. Begault (1998) Virtual acoustics, aeronautics and communications, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 46, 520-530
D. R. Begault, E. M. Wenzel, & W. B. Lathrop (1997) Augmented tcas advisories using a 3-d audio guidance system, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University.
R. S. McCann, A. D. Andre, D. R. Begault, D. C. Foyle, & E. M. Wenzel (1997) Enhancing ground taxi performance under low visibility: are electronic moving maps enough?, Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 41st Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 37-41
D. R. Begault (1997) Evaluation of psychoacoustical parameters of 3-D sound, Workshop on three-dimensional sound spatialization and its applications [Invited presentation], Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Paris, FR
D. R. Begault (1997) Virtual acoustics: evaluation of psychoacoustic parameters for Auralization, Proceedings of IWHIT'97, Third International Workshop on Human Interface Technology. NASA Ames Research Center.
S. R. Ellis, D. R. Begault, & E. M. Wenzel (1997) Virtual Environments as Human-Computer Interfaces, In M. Helander (Ed.), Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., pp. 163-201.
D. R. Begault, E. M. Wenzel, R. Shrum, & J. Miller (1996) A virtual audio guidance and alert system for commercial aircraft operations, Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Palo Alto, CA, Nov. 4-6, 117-122
D. R. Begault (1996) Audible and inaudible early reflections: thresholds for auralization system design, Audio Engineering Society 100th Convention, Copenhagen, DK . (Preprint 4244)
D. C. Foyle, A. D. Andre, R. S. McCann, E. M. Wenzel, D. R. Begault, & V. Battiste (1996) Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness (T-NASA) system: Problem, design philosophy, and description of an integrated display suite for low-visibility airport surface operations, Proceedings of the SAE/AIAA World Aviation Congress, paper 96555, SAE Transactions: Journal of Aerospace, 105, 1411-1418.
D. R. Begault (1996) The Sonic CD-ROM for Desktop Audio Production. An Electronic Guide to Producing Computer Audio for Multimedia, Chestnut Hill, MA: Academic Press Professional
D. R. Begault, & M. T. Pittman (1996) Three-Dimensional Audio Versus Head-Down Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System Displays, International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 6(1), 79-93.
D. R. Begault (1996) Virtual acoustics, aeronautics and communications, Audio Engineering Society 101st convention, Los Angeles, (Preprint 4352)
D. R. Begault (1995) Head-up auditory display research at NASA Ames Research Center, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Meeting, San Diego, CA
D. R. Begault (1995) Virtual acoustic displays for teleconferencing: Intelligibility advantage for , Audio Engineering Society 98th Convention, San Francisco (preprint 4008)
D. R. Begault (1994) 3-D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia, Cambridge, MA: Academic Press Professional
D. R. Begault, & T. Erbe (1994) Multichannel spatial auditory display for speech communications, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 42, 819-826
D. R. Begault (1993) A head-up auditory display for TCAS advisories, Human Factors, 35, 707-717
D. R. Begault (1993) An introduction to 3-D sound for virtual reality, In S. K. Helsel (Ed.), VR Becomes A Business: Virtual Reality '92 Proceedings. (pp. 4-15). Westport, CT: Meckler.
D. R. Begault (1993) Call sign intelligibility improvement using a spatial auditory display: applications to KSC speech communications, Proceedings of the Space Operations, Applications and Research (SOAR) Conference, 363-70. NASA Johnson Space Center.
D. R. Begault, & E. M. Wenzel (1993) Headphone Localization of Speech, Human Factors, 35, 361-376
D. R. Begault, & T. R. Erbe (1993) Multi-channel spatial auditory display for speech communications, Audio Engineering Society 95th Convention, Preprint No. 3707
D. R. Begault (1993) The Evolution of 3-D Sound, Mix, 17, 42-46.
D. R. Begault (1992) Binaural Auralization and Perceptual Veridicality, Audio Engineering Society 93rd Convention, Preprint No. 3421
D. R. Begault (1992) Perceptual effects of synthetic reverberation on three-dimensional audio systems, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 40(11), 895-904
D. R. Begault (1992) Perceptual similarity of measured and synthetic HRTF filtered speech stimuli, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 92, 2334
D. R. Begault, & E. M. Wenzel (1992) Techniques and applications for binaural sound manipulation in human-machine interfaces, International Journal of Aviation Psychology 2(1), 1-22
D. R. Begault (1992) The Virtual Reality of 3-D Sound, In L. Jacobson (Eds.), Cyberarts: Exploring Art and Technology (pp. 79-87). San Francisco: Miller-Freeman Publications.
D. R. Begault (1991) Challenges to the successful implementation of 3-D sound, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 39 (11), 864-870
D. R. Begault, & E. M. Wenzel (1991) Headphone Localization of Speech Stimuli, In Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 35th Convention, pp. 82-86
D. R. Begault (1991) Preferred sound intensity increase for sensation of half distance, Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72, 1019-1029
D. R. Begault (1990) 3-D Sound and Auralization, In J. Sendra (Ed.) Computational Architectural Acoustics. Southampton, UK: Computational Mechanics Publications.
D. R. Begault (1990) Auditory and non-auditory factors that potentially influence virtual acoustic imagery, Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 16th international conference on spatial sound reproduction, Rovaniemi, FIN
D. R. Begault (1990) Challenges facing 3-D audio display design for multimedia, Proceedings of the 137th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 2nd Convention of the European Acoustics Association (Forum Accusticum 99) and the 25th German DAGA Conference, Berlin.
D. R. Begault (1990) The Composition of Auditory Space: Recent Developments in Headphone Music, Leonardo 23 (1), pp. 45-52
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