Christian Gigu猫re joined the University of Ottawa in 1995 and is currently Professor in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the School of Rehabilitation Sciences. He teaches courses in acoustics, speech science, instrumentation in audiology, and hearing aids. His research interests include speech communication and warning sound perception, hearing loss prevention, and auditory fitness for duty. He has authored over 150 journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. Professor Gigu猫re is active in the area of standardization with several national (CSA, ANSI) and international (ISO) technical workgroups on topics related to occupational hearing loss, hearing protection and audiology. He is past president of the Canadian Acoustical Association (CAA) and former co-chair of the International Commission on the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN). He is chair of the Z1007 Technical Committee on occupational hearing loss with the Canadian Standards Organisation (CSA) and an Associate Editor with The International Journal of Audiology (TIJA). He is a Distinguished International Member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE-USA).
Christian Gigu猫re

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Christian
Gigu猫re
Full Professor
1994 Ph.D. Information Engineering, Cambridge University
1989 M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto
1986 M.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto
1983 B.Sc.A. Engineering Physics, Universit茅 Laval
Room
RGN 3056
Phone
613-562-5800 ext. 4649
Email
Biography
Research interests
- Speech and warning sound perception in noise
- Hearing aids, advanced hearing protectors and communication devices
- Hearing loss prevention in the noisy workplace
- Auditory fitness for duty
Selected publications
- Laroche C., Gigu猫re C., Vaillancourt V., Marleau C., Cadieux M.-F., Laprise-Girard K., Gula E., Carroll V., Bibeau M., and N茅lisse H. (2021). 鈥淓ffect of Hearing and Head Protection on the Localization of Tonal and Broadband Reverse Alarms,鈥 Human Factors. In press
- Gigu猫re C., Lagac茅 J., Ellaham N.N., Pichora-Fuller M.K., Goy H., B茅gin C., Alary 脡., and Bowman R. (2020). 鈥淒evelopment of the Canadian Digit Triplet Test in English and French,鈥 J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 147, EL252-EL258
- Gigu猫re C., Vaillancourt V., and Laroche C. (2019). 鈥淓ffects of hearing loss and language proficiency on speech intelligibility over radio transmission with tactical communication devices,鈥 International Journal of Audiology 59, S31-S39.
- Nakashima A. and Gigu猫re, C. (2019). 鈥淭owards an improved hearing safety standard for impulse noise exposure in the Canadian Armed Forces,鈥 Journal of Military, Veterans and Family Health 6(1), 98-107.
- Gigu猫re C., Laroche C., Vaillancourt, V., and Soli S.D. (2019). 鈥淒evelopment of Hearing Standards for Ontario鈥檚 Constable Selection System,鈥 International Journal of Audiology 58(11), 798-804.
- Nassrallah F., Ellaham N.N., Gigu猫re C., and Dajani H.R. (2019). 鈥淎n indirect calculation method for estimating occupational sound exposure from communication headsets,鈥 J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 145(2), 749-760.
- Vaziri G., Gigu猫re C., and Dajani, H.R. (2019). 鈥淓valuating noise suppression methods for recovering the Lombard speech from vocal output in an external noise field,鈥 Int. J. of Speech Technology 22, 31-46.
- Soli S.D., Gigu猫re C., Laroche C., Vaillancourt V., Dreschler W.A., Rhebergen K.S., Harkins K., Ruckstuhl M., Ramulu P., and Meyers L.S. (2018). 鈥淓vidence-based occupational hearing screening I: Modelling the effects of real-world noise environments on the likelihood of effective speech communication,鈥 Ear Hear 39 (3), 436鈥448
- Soli S.D., Amano-Kusumoto A., Clavier O., Wilbur J., Casto K., Freed D., Laroche C., Vaillancourt V., Gigu猫re C., Dreschler W.A., and Rhebergen K.S. (2018). 鈥淓vidence-based occupational hearing screening II: Validation of a screening methodology using measures of functional hearing ability,鈥 International Journal of Audiology 57(5), 323-334.
- Laroche C., Gigu猫re C., Vaillancourt V., Roy K., Pageot L-P., N茅lisse H., Ellaham N., and Nassrallah F. (2018). 鈥淒etection and reaction thresholds for reverse alarms in noise with and without passive hearing protection,鈥 International Journal of Audiology 57(S1), S51-S60
- Al Osman R., Gigu猫re C., and Dajani H.R. (2018). 鈥淓ffects of early and late-arriving room reflections on the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response,鈥 Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 29(2), 95-105.
- Al Osman R., Dajani H.R., and Gigu猫re C. (2017). 鈥淪elf-masking and overlap-masking from reverberation using the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response,鈥 J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 142(6), EL555-EL560.
- Gigu猫re C., Vaziri G., Dajani H.R., and Berger E.H. (2017). 鈥淪peech communication with hearing protectors,鈥 NHCA Spectrum 34 (2), 15-19.
- Al Osman R., Gigu猫re C., and Dajani H.R. (2016). "Effects of stimulus rate on speech-evoked auditory brainstem response," Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 40(2), 105-119.
- Nassrallah F., Gigu猫re C., Dajani H.R., and Ellaham N.N. (2016). 鈥淐omparison of direct measurement methods for headset noise exposure in the workplace,鈥 Noise & Health 18(81), 62-77.
- Vaillancourt V., Gendron M., Leroux T., Laroche C., Leroux T., Fortier P., Par茅 L., Gigu猫re C. et Voix J. (2016). 芦 Utilisation des proth猫ses auditives en milieu de travail bruyant 鈥 Probl茅matique, pratiques courantes et outils utilis茅s par les intervenants de la sant茅 pour r茅pondre aux besoins des travailleurs 禄, Travail et Sant茅 32(1), 20-25.
- Gigu猫re C., and Berger E.H. (2016). 鈥淪peech communication in noise under hearing protection: A computational study of the combined effects of hearing loss and hearing protector attenuation,鈥 International Journal of Audiology 55(S1), S30-S40.