Voice codification evaluation based on a real-time training system with tactile feedback applied to deaf people

Barbacena, Ilton L.; Macedo, E C; Barros, Alessio T.; Carvalho, Elisete Mendes; Freire, Raimundo C. S.; Neto, Benedito G. Aguiar

doi:10.1109/imtc.2009.5168539

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“…The retrieved data reveals a significant disparity in the participants involved in these experiments: most studies either include a limited number of individuals with target impairment, or simulate impairments by depriving people of one or more senses. Thirteen publications present more than eight participants with impairments (above the mean of the whole study group; see Figure 14), and ten of these studies declared an affiliation with a hospital or collaboration with a school, health institution, or association for impaired individuals [14,40,45,48,51,54,56,59,60,[63][64][65]. While recognizing the substantial challenges in the recruitment process, particularly within minority groups, we recommend that researchers establish close collaborations with hospitals, schools, and care centers to access a more diverse and representative population.…”

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The Role of Haptics in Training and Games for Hearing-Impaired Individuals: A Systematic Review

Ganis,

Gulli,

Fontana

et al. 2023

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Sensory substitution and augmentation are pivotal concepts in multi-modal perception, particularly when confronting the challenges associated with impaired or missing sense rehabilitation. The present systematic review investigates the role of haptics for the hearing impaired in training or gamified activities. We applied a set of keywords to the Scopus® and PubMed® databases, obtaining a collection of 35 manuscripts spanning 23 years. Each article has been categorized following a documented procedure and thoroughly analyzed. Our findings reveal a rising number of studies in this field in the last five years, mostly testing the effectiveness of the developed rehabilitative method (77.14%). Despite a wide variety in almost every category we analyzed, such as haptic devices, body location, and data collection, we report a constant difficulty in recruitment, reflected in the low number of hearing-impaired participants (mean of 8.31). This review found that in all six papers reporting statistically significant positive results, the vibrotactile device in use generated vibrations starting from a sound, suggesting that some perceptual aspects connected to sound are transmittable through touch. This fact provides evidence that haptics and vibrotactile devices could be viable solutions for hearing-impaired rehabilitation and training.

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