DocumentCode :
3007052
Title :
Personal alerting technology for people with hearing difficulty: pilot study
Author :
Dubin, S. ; Zietz, Stanley
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Phys. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of the Sci. in Philadelphia, PA, USA
fYear :
2004
fDate :
17-18 April 2004
Firstpage :
202
Lastpage :
203
Abstract :
People with hearing difficulty need to be alerted in case under conditions of danger (fire, siren) and opportunity (telephone, doorbell). Conventional "hard wired" alerting devices provide a rudimentary and rather awkward mitigation to this need, since they are fixed to a particular location and limited to one or few alerting signals. We envision a more flexible adaptive technology based on identification of alerting sounds by classification of their frequency spectra and use of personal portable alerting devices. We submit initial feasibility information using a classical statistical approach.
Keywords :
alarm systems; hearing; hearing aids; statistical analysis; alerting sound identification; classical statistical approach; danger alerts; fire; flexible adaptive technology; frequency spectra classification; hard wired alerting devices; hearing difficulty; opportunity alerts; personal alerting technology; personal portable alerting devices; siren; Animals; Auditory system; Deafness; Dogs; Frequency; Microphones; Speech; Telephony; Tires; Vehicles;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE 30th Annual Northeast
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8285-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.2004.1300065
Filename :
1300065
Link To Document :
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