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.

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

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

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)