Title :
Sound alerting aids for the profoundly deaf
Author :
Uvacek, B. ; Moschytz, George S.
Author_Institution :
Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
A strategy for tactile hearing aids, useful in detection of acoustic alarm signals, called TIPS (tactile identification of preclassified signals) is proposed. The first part of TIPS is the modeling of alarm signals, feature extraction, and machine recognition with several classification algorithms; the second part of TIPS is the electrotactile nerve fiber stimulation with optimal patterns for painfree and reliable transmission of recognition results. Limits, problems, and one solution, an experimental wearable and trainable alarm-signal recognition aid called SIGNALON, are discussed
Keywords :
alarm systems; computerised signal processing; handicapped aids; tactile sensors; SIGNALON; TIPS; acoustic alarm signals; alarm-signal recognition; electrotactile nerve fiber stimulation; feature extraction; handicapped aid; machine recognition; tactile hearing aids; tactile identification of preclassified signals; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Classification algorithms; Deafness; Detectors; Displays; Hearing aids; Pattern recognition; Signal processing; Skin; Speech;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1988., IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Espoo
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1988.15478
