Research

The following is a list of publications, conferences, & talks. Feel free to check out my ResearchGate and GitHub pages for more information.

Articles
O’Brien, B, Meunier, C, Tomashenko, N, et al. (2023) “Evaluating the effects of task design on unfamiliar Francophone listener and automatic speaker identification performance,” Multimedia Applications and Tools
• Marczyk, A, O’Brien, B, Tremblay, P, et al. (2022) “Correlates of vowel clarity in the spectrotemporal modulation domain: Application to speech impairment evaluation,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152 (5): 2675-2291
O’Brien, B, Hardouin, R, Rao, G, et al. (2020) “Online sonification improves cycling performance through kinematic and muscular reorganisations,” Scientific Reports 10(20929)
O’Brien, B, Juhas, B, Bieńkiewicz, M, Bourdin, C. (2020) “Revisiting the Nesbit and McGinnis optimization model of the golf swing hub path,” Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness 60(8), 1089-1100.
O’Brien, B, Juhas, B, Bieńkiewicz, M, et al. (2020) “Online sonification for golf putting gesture: reduced variability of motor behaviour and perceptual judgement,” Experimental Brain Research 238, 883–895.
O’Brien, B, Juhas, B, Bieńkiewicz, M, et al. (2020) “Sonification of Golf Putting Gesture Reduces Swing Movement Variability in Novices,” Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 92:3, 301-310.

Interactive Sonification Workshop
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE (2019)

Proceedings & Chapters
O’Brien, B, Greese, A, Billaud, J-B, et al. (2023) “Differentiating acoustic and physiological features in speech for hypoxia detection”, Proc. Interspeech 2023
• Mazzocconi, C, O’Brien, B, El Haddad, K, et al. (2023) “Differences between Mimicking and Non-Mimicking laughter in Child-Caregiver Conversation: A Distributional and Acoustic Analysis,” Cognitive Science Society Conference, Sydney, AU
O’Brien, B, Meunier, C, Ghio, A. (2022) “Evaluating the effects of modified speech on perceptual speaker identification performance, Proc. Interspeech 2022, 3073-3077
O’Brien, B, Meunier, C, Ghio, A, et al. (2022) “Discriminating speakers using perceptual clustering interface,” Studi AISV: Speaker Individuality in Phonetics and Speech Sciences: Speech Technology and Forensic Applications, Milan, Officinaventuno 2021: 97-111
O’Brien, B, Tomashenko, N, Chanclu A, Bonastre J-F. (2021) “Anonymous Speaker Clusters: Making Distinctions Between Anonymised Speech Recordings with Clustering Interface,” Proc. Interspeech 2021, 3580-3584
O’Brien, B, Meunier, C, Ghio, A. (2021) “Presentation Matters: Evaluating Speaker Identification Tasks,” Proc. Interspeech 2021, 4623-4627
O’Brien, B, Vidal A, Bringoux, L, Bourdin, C. (2019) “Developing movement sonification for sports performance: A survey of studies developed at the Institute of Movement Science,” Interactive Sonification Workshop, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE (18/11)
O’Brien, B, Juhas, B, Bieńkiewcz, M, et al. (2018) “Considerations for Developing Sound in Golf Putting Experiments,” Post-proceedings of CMMR 2017 – Music Technology with Swing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
O’Brien, B (2016) “Sample Sharing: Virtual Laptop Ensemble Communities.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality, edit. Shelia Whiteley and Share Rambarran, 377-91. New York: Oxford University Press
• Ingraham, C, McKinney, Ch, McKinney, Cu, O’Brien, B (2012) “Glitch Lich: Evolution of an Intercontinental Network Band,” Proc of the Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University: Apr. 15
• Garrison, T, Neal, A, O’Brien, B, Peuquet, S. (2012) “FLIP: Idealism and Failure in Improvisatory Laptop Ensemble Performance,” Proc of the Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University: Apr. 15

Golf swing data collection
Marta Bieńkiewcz & B. O’Brien
Technosport, Aix-Marseille Université, FR (2017)

Presentations
• Mazzocconi, C, K, O’Brien, B, Chaminade, T. (2023) “How do you laugh in an fMRI scanner? Behavioural and acoustic analysis of laughter in a multimodal conversational corpus while recording brain activity,” Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Workshop 2023, Bielefeld, DE: August 30
• Mazzocconi, C, El Haddad, K, O’Brien, B, et al. (2023) “Laughter Mimicry in Parent-Child and Parent-Adult interaction,” International Multimodal Communication Symposium, Barcelona, ES: April 26-28
O’Brien, B. (2023) “Sonification and speech: recent research on auditory feedback based on human movement,” EuroMov, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, FR: March 16
O’Brien, B. (2022) “Sonification of sports gestures and speech impairment applications: Recent work on auditory feedback based on human movement,” Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon, Avignon, FR: June 22
• Mazzocconi, C, O’Brien, B, Chaminade, T. (2022) “Laughing Brain Analysis of annotated laughs in Convers Corpus,” Institute of Language, Speech, and the Brain, Marseille, FR: April 29
O’Brien, B (2021) “Anonymous speaker clusters: Making distinctions between anonymised speech recordings with clustering interface,” National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, JP: Nov. 4
O’Brien, B. (2021) “Sonification, Speaker Anonymisation, Spectral-temporal modulation: Recent research on sound and its effects on movement, perception, and identification,” Institute of Movement Sciences, Marseille, FR: June 24
• Marczyk, A, O’Brien, B, Ghio, A, et al. (2021) “Evaluation de la qualité vocalique à partir de l’analyse du signal modulé : validation de construit,” 9èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, l’Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier: May 27
O’Brien, B, Ghio, A, Fredouille, C, et al. (2021) “Discriminating speakers using perceptual clustering interface,” Speaker Individuality in Phonetics and Speech Sciences: Speech Technology and Forensic Applications: XVII AISV Conference 2021, Zurich, CH: Feb. 04
• Marczyk, A, O’Brien, B. (2020) “Speech characterisation with magnitude power spectrum : Clinical implications and beyond,” Centre de recherche CERVO, Québec, CA: Dec. 7
• Marczyk, A, O’Brien, B. (2020) “How spectrotemporal modulations can be used in phonetic research?” Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Province, FR: Nov. 20
O’Brien, B, Chanclu, A (2020) “Subjective Evaluation-2 Linkability,” Voice Privacy 2020 Virtual Workshop at Odyssey 2020, Toyko, JP: Nov. 4 (04/11)
• Santos-Santos, M-A, Marczyk, A, O’Brien, B (2020) “Evaluacíon del trastorno del habla mediante et análisis de la modulación espectrotemporal del habla (MPS): Utildad para el diagnóstico en la afasia neurodegenerativa”, Reunión anual de la Sociedad española de neurología, Sevilla, ES: Nov. 23
O’Brien, B, Bourdin, C. (2019) “Sonification of pedal stroke” demonstration, 80 years of CNRS, Paris, FR: Oct. 17
O’Brien, B (2018) “An approach to form & content,” Vienna Summer Music Festival – Vienna, AT: June 15
O’Brien, B (2018) “Des considérations pour développer le son dans les expériences de golf,” Journées Jeunes Chercheurs en Audition, Acoustique musicale et Signal audio – Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, FR: June 6
• Bieńkiewcz, M, O’Brien, B, Bourdin, C. (2017) “The pitfalls of being a COPYCAT: Learning golf putting through acoustic and visual guidance,” International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research – Porto, PT: Sep. 26
• Rambarran, S, Draper, P, O’Brien, B, et al. (2016) “The Oxford Handbook of Music & Virtuality” book panel, Art of Record Production Conference – Aaalborg University, Aalborg, DK: Dec. 1
O’Brien, B (2016) “Composing with SuperCollider,” The Bridge PAI, Charlottesville, US: Jul. 28
O’Brien, B (2016) “Inscribing Sound Forms,” Journées d’Informatique Musicale, GMEA – Centre National de Création Musicale d’Albi-Tarn, Albi, FR: Mar. 31
O’Brien, B (2016) “From Instrument to Controller,” 4e Journée des Jeunes Chercheurs du GREAM – University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FR: Mar. 11
O’Brien, B (2014) “Lost in Transformation: Composer as Translator,” Society For Electro-acoustic Music in the United States Conference – Wesleyan University – Middletown, US: Mar. 29
O’Brien, B (2014) “A few words on cadenceStudie,” Midwest Graduate Music Consortium – University of Wisconsin, Madison, US: Nov. 14

Art of record production conference
Shara Rambarran & B. O’Brien
Aalborg University, Aalborg, DK (2016)

Miscellaneous
• Tomashenko, N, Wang, X, Vincent, E, et al. (2022) “The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge: Results and findings,” Computer Speech & Language, 74, 101362
O’Brien, B (2018) “Sounds Concealing Other Sounds: Alvin Lucie’s Gentle Fire”, L’education Musicale, Oct. 2018
• Rozanoff, S. (2017) “Benjamin O’Brien: For In-Between Times” Review, Computer Music Journal 41(4), 88-89
O’Brien, B (2015) “A Theory on Musical Translation,” Ph.D Thesis, University of Florida – Gainesville, US: (15/08/15)
O’Brien, B (2014) “Lost in Transformation: Composer as Translator,” eContact! 16.3
O’Brien, B (2009) “The Compositional Symbiosis of Certainty and Chance,” MA Thesis, Mills College – Oakland, US (01/06/09)

Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium
Toronto, CA (2013)