Vibrotactile identification of signal-processed sounds from environmental events presented by a portable vibrator: a laboratory study

Ranjbar, Parivash,1968-Örebro universitet,Akademin för naturvetenskap och teknik,elektronik (author)

Vibrotactile identification of signal-processed sounds from environmental events presented by a portable vibrator : a laboratory study

Objective: To evaluate different signal-processing algorithms for tactile identification of environmental sounds in a monitoring aid for the deafblind. Subjects: Two men and three women, sensorineurally deaf or profoundly hearing impaired with experience of vibratory experiments, age 22-36 years. Method: A closed set of 45 representative environmental sounds were processed using two transposing (TRHA, TR1/3) and three modulating algorithms (AM, AMFM, AMMC) and presented as tactile stimuli using a portable vibrator in three experiments. The algorithms TRHA, TR1/3, AMFM and AMMC had two alternatives (with and without adaption to vibratory thresholds). In Exp. 1, the sounds were preprocessed and directly fed to the vibrator. In Exp. 2 and 3, the sounds were presented in an acoustic test room, without or with background noise (SNR=+5 dB), and processed in real time. Results: In Exp. 1, Algorithm AMFM and AMFM(A) consistently had the lowest identification scores, and were thus excluded in Exp. 2 and 3. TRHA, AM, AMMC, and AMMC(A) showed comparable identification scores (30%-42%) and the addition of noise did not deteriorate the performance. Conclusion: Algorithm TRHA, AM, AMMC, and AMMC(A) showed good performance in all three experiments and were robust in noise; they can therefore be used in further testing in real environments.

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Elektroteknik och elektronik Signalbehandling hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering Signal Processing hsv//eng
NATURVETENSKAP Data- och informationsvetenskap hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Computer and Information Sciences hsv//eng
Environmental sound
Identification
Narrow-band
Tactile perception
Transposing
Vibration
Vibrator
Signal processing
Signalbehandling
TECHNOLOGY
TEKNIKVETENSKAP
Information technology
Informationsteknik
Signalbehandling
Signal Processing

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