Can you see what i hear?: the design and evaluation of a peripheral sound display for the deaf Export

@inproceedings{ching:chi2003:can, abstract = {We developed two visual displays for providing awareness of environmental audio to deaf individuals. Based on fieldwork with deaf and hearing participants, we focused on supporting awareness of non-speech audio sounds such as ringing phones and knocking in a work environment. Unlike past work, our designs support both monitoring and notification of sounds, support discovery of new sounds, and do not require a priori knowledge of sounds to be detected. Our Spectrograph design shows pitch and amplitude, while our Positional Ripples design shows amplitude and location of sounds. A controlled experiment involving deaf participants found neither display to be significantly distracting. However, users preferred the Positional Ripples display and found that display easier to monitor (notification sounds were detected with 90\% success in a laboratory setting). The Spectrograph display also supported successful detection in most cases, and was well received when deployed in the field.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Wai ling Ho Ching and Mankoff, Jennifer and Landay, James A.}, booktitle = {CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {771586}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=642641}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642641}, doi = {10.1145/642611.642641}, isbn = {1-58113-630-7}, keywords = {cpsc544, human\_computer\_interaction}, location = {Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA}, pages = {161--168}, posted-at = {2009-10-01 22:50:52}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Can you see what i hear?: the design and evaluation of a peripheral sound display for the deaf}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642641}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - ching:chi2003:can L3 - citeulike-article-id:771586 N2 - We developed two visual displays for providing awareness of environmental audio to deaf individuals. Based on fieldwork with deaf and hearing participants, we focused on supporting awareness of non-speech audio sounds such as ringing phones and knocking in a work environment. Unlike past work, our designs support both monitoring and notification of sounds, support discovery of new sounds, and do not require a priori knowledge of sounds to be detected. Our Spectrograph design shows pitch and amplitude, while our Positional Ripples design shows amplitude and location of sounds. A controlled experiment involving deaf participants found neither display to be significantly distracting. However, users preferred the Positional Ripples display and found that display easier to monitor (notification sounds were detected with 90% success in a laboratory setting). The Spectrograph display also supported successful detection in most cases, and was well received when deployed in the field. CY - Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA SN - 1-58113-630-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 168 TI - Can you see what i hear?: the design and evaluation of a peripheral sound display for the deaf PB - ACM T2 - CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 161 KW - cpsc544 KW - human_computer_interaction AU - Wai ling Ho Ching AU - Mankoff, Jennifer AU - Landay, James PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642641 ER -