Journal's Facebook pageDesign of a Multimodal Hearing System
- Wearable Computing Lab., ETH Zurich
Gloriastr. 35, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
{lastname}@ife.ee.ethz.ch - University of Maribor
Smetanova ulica 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
{firstname.lastname}@uni-mb.si - Phonak AG
Laubisrütistrasse 28, 8712 Stäfa, Switzerland
{firstname.lastname}@phonak.ch
Abstract
Hearing instruments (HIs) have become context-aware devices that analyze the acoustic environment in order to automatically adapt sound processing to the user’s current hearing wish. However, in the same acoustic environment an HI user can have different hearing wishes requiring different behaviors from the hearing instrument. In these cases, the audio signal alone contains too little contextual information to determine the user’s hearing wish. Additional modalities to sound can provide the missing information to improve the adaption. In this work, we review additional modalities to sound in HIs and present a prototype of a newly developed wireless multimodal hearing system. The platform takes into account additional sensor modalities such as the user’s body movement and location. We characterize the system regarding runtime, latency and reliability of the wireless connection, and point out possibilities arising from the novel approach.
Key words
multimodal hearing instrument, assistive technology
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS120423012T
Publication information
Volume 10, Issue 1 (Januar 2013)
Year of Publication: 2013
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium
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Tessendorf, B., Debevc, M., Derleth, P., Feilner, M., Gravenhorst, F., Roggen, D., Stiefmeier, T., Tröster, G.: Design of a Multimodal Hearing System. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1. (2013), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS120423012T
