UbiEar: Bringing location-independent sound awareness to the hard-of-hearing people with smartphones

• Main Authors: LIU, Sicong, ZHOU, Zimu, DU, Junzhao, SHANGGUAN, Longfei, HAN, Jun, WANG, Xin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Ubiquitous and mobile computing; Human-centered computing; deaf elderly; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4694; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5697/viewcontent/UbiEar_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Non-speech sound-awareness is important to improve the quality of life for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people. DHH people, especially the young, are not always satisfied with their hearing aids. According to the interviews with 60 young hard-of-hearing students, a ubiquitous sound-awareness t...