%0 Conference Paper %1 Larsen:2013:DHA:2544114.2544118 %A Larsen, Camilla H. %A Lauritsen, David S. %A Larsen, Jacob J. %A Pilgaard, Marc %A Madsen, Jacob B. %B Proceedings of the 8th Audio Mostly Conference %C New York, NY, USA %D 2013 %I ACM %K ACM %P 5:1--5:8 %R 10.1145/2544114.2544118 %T Differences in Human Audio Localization Performance Between a HRTF- and a non-HRTF Audio System %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2544114.2544118 %X Spatial audio solutions have been around for a long time in real-time applications, but yielding spatial cues that more closely simulate real life accuracy has been a computational issue, and has often been solved by hardware solutions. This has long been a restriction, but now with more powerful computers this is becoming a lesser and lesser concern and software solutions are now applicable. Most current virtual environment applications do not take advantage of these implementations of accurate spatial cues, however. This paper compares a common implementation of spatial audio and a head-related transfer function (HRTF) system implementation in a study in relation to precision, speed and navigational performance in localizing audio sources in a virtual environment. We found that a system using HRTFs is significantly better at all three performance tasks than a system using panning. %@ 978-1-4503-2659-9

@inproceedings{Larsen:2013:DHA:2544114.2544118, abstract = {Spatial audio solutions have been around for a long time in real-time applications, but yielding spatial cues that more closely simulate real life accuracy has been a computational issue, and has often been solved by hardware solutions. This has long been a restriction, but now with more powerful computers this is becoming a lesser and lesser concern and software solutions are now applicable. Most current virtual environment applications do not take advantage of these implementations of accurate spatial cues, however. This paper compares a common implementation of spatial audio and a head-related transfer function (HRTF) system implementation in a study in relation to precision, speed and navigational performance in localizing audio sources in a virtual environment. We found that a system using HRTFs is significantly better at all three performance tasks than a system using panning.}, acmid = {2544118}, added-at = {2015-03-17T19:28:33.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, articleno = {5}, author = {Larsen, Camilla H. and Lauritsen, David S. and Larsen, Jacob J. and Pilgaard, Marc and Madsen, Jacob B.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/246b145a692dee2d03474f4c34df73421/alex_szykman}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Audio Mostly Conference}, doi = {10.1145/2544114.2544118}, interhash = {480ce2d21c51c9248210976a6b219779}, intrahash = {46b145a692dee2d03474f4c34df73421}, isbn = {978-1-4503-2659-9}, keywords = {ACM}, location = {Pite\å, Sweden}, numpages = {8}, pages = {5:1--5:8}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {AM '13}, timestamp = {2015-03-17T19:28:33.000+0100}, title = {Differences in Human Audio Localization Performance Between a HRTF- and a non-HRTF Audio System}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2544114.2544118}, year = 2013 }