Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged sound recognition.
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Visualizing Non-Speech Sounds for the Deaf
This paper investigates peripheral visual displays that help people who are deaf maintain awareness of non-speech sounds in their environment — sounds like phone ringing, doorbells, knocking, fire alarms, children playing, dogs barking, and appliance…
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Automated Class Discovery and One-Shot Interactions for Acoustic Activity Recognition
This paper presents Listen Learner, an end-to-end system for acoustic activity recognition that automatically discovers and learns to classify environmental sounds with minimal user effort. Traditional approaches to sound recognition face a tradeoff:…
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Technical Perspective: Computation Where the (Inter)Action Is
This one-page technical perspective accompanies the SoundWatch paper in Communications of the ACM. Bigham uses SoundWatch — a smartwatch prototype that detects audio events and displays descriptions for deaf and hard-of-hearing people — as a lens to …
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"Not There Yet": Feasibility and Challenges of Mobile Sound Recognition to Support Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People
This paper presents the first longitudinal field study of a mobile sound recognition system used by Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people in their daily lives. The researchers deployed SoundWatch, a smartwatch-based app that uses a deep learning mode…
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AdaptiveSound: An Interactive Feedback-Loop System to Improve Sound Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
This paper introduces AdaptiveSound, the first feedback-loop sound recognition system designed for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users. Sound recognition tools help DHH people become aware of environmental sounds ranging from safety-critical alerts …