Loudness measurement of human utterance to a robot in noisy environment

Kagami, Satoshi; Sasaki, Yoko; Thompson, Simon G.; Fujihara, Tomoaki; Enomoto, Takashi; Mizoguchi, Hiroshi

doi:10.1145/1349822.1349851

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“…Consequently, several of the interactions the prototype addresses were not incorporated in the present study, particularly, changes in listener proximity (cf. [6]) and the role and utility of speech-based user controls.…”

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Evaluating the Utility of Auditory Perspective-Taking in Robot Speech Presentations

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In speech interactions, people routinely reason about each other's auditory perspective and adjust their manner of speaking accordingly by raising their voice to overcome noise or distance, and sometimes by pausing and resuming when conditions are more favorable for their listener. In this paper we report the findings of a listening study motivated by both this observation and a prototype auditory interface for a mobile robot that monitors the aural parameters of its environment to infer its user's listening requirements. The results provide significant empirical evidence of the utility of simulated auditory perspective taking and the inferred use of loudness and/or pauses to overcome the potential of ambient noise to mask synthetic speech.

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The false dichotomy between accessibility and usability

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Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

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Traditionally, accessibility researchers have focused on the barrier-free designs that make information available to a diverse set of user abilities and constraints. Usability practitioners and researchers have focused their efforts on making information interfaces usable by the average abled-bodied user.The problem in this dichotomy is the myth of two assumptions. First, there is the myth of the "average" user. The first rule about psychology experiments is that often the individual subject variations in an experiment often overwhelm any effects that you're attempting to observe. We use the "average user" as a concept so that we have a prototypical user to design for, when in fact, often we're designing for a set of different user persona, use cases, and skill levels. Second, there is the myth of "barrier-free" design. Design is inherently an exercise in which we optimize for a certain set of use cases, while de-emphasizing other less important use cases. As a result, a design can never be entirely "barrier-free".If we treat this dichotomy as false, we start to realize that a whole set of problems between the two fields are one and the same. If we reject the dichotomy, then we see that many accessibility problems are also usability problems, and vice versa. For example, language barriers in social media, mobile devices and their ease of use while walking, and the ability to input text using voice rather than typing are all accessibility and usability problems. To emphasize, usability and accessibility are both fundamentally about the ability to get at information resources and knowledge. Broadly, I see many opportunities to bridge this false dichotomy and will attempt to give examples during this talk.

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Loudness measurement of human utterance to a robot in noisy environment

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Evaluating the Utility of Auditory Perspective-Taking in Robot Speech Presentations

Evaluating the Utility of Auditory Perspective-Taking in Robot Speech Presentations

The false dichotomy between accessibility and usability

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