A method to reduce steps and time of hearing test on individual device

Author

Gyuseok Park ; Euichul Jeong ; Hongsub An ; Youngrok Song ; Sangmin Lee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Inha Univ., Incheon, South Korea

Volume

4

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1955

Lastpage

1958

Abstract

It took a lot of time to test the hearing loss, and old people were difficulty in having a concentration for a long time. The purpose of this study is to setup a fast self-test of finding the hearing level. We suggested two ideas to reduce time and steps. First, we expected the first sound using an average and an extended scope of levels. Second, the test of unnecessary frequency was skipped. We assume that the hearing level of the normal was similar to other frequencies or existed in regular range. A pure tone was generated from device based on the expectation of hearing level. If the hearing level of subject was under 30dB, test in some frequencies could be skipped. It is able to save the whole time as reducing steps in each frequency.

Keywords

geriatrics; hearing; fast self-test; hearing level; hearing loss; hearing test; old people; pure tone; Accuracy; Aging; Auditory system; Built-in self-test; Educational institutions; Physiology; Time frequency analysis; Hearing level; Hearing test; Method; Self-test; individual device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2011 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9351-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2011.6098703

Filename

6098703