VOICE-PITCH TACTILE DISPLAY FOR THE DEAF

专为聋人设计的音调触觉显示器

• 批准号: 3503989
• 负责人: DAVID C COULTER
• 金额: $ 4.97万
• 依托单位: COULTER ASSOCIATES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1985
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1985-04-01 至 1985-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3503989
• 关键词: auditory discrimination; child with disability; deaf aid; deafness; differential semantics; electrotactile communication; human subject; reading; sound frequency; speech; speech disorders; voice

The long-term objective is to produce a wearable tactile communication aid for the deaf. In contrast to other tactile aids the system will present a specific voice feature, voice pitch, that is known to provide important communication cues about syntactic structure and communicative intent. Deaf school children are very slow to adopt the usual dialogue conventions between teacher and pupil for exchanging information. It is believed that information about the teacher's voice pitch and rhythm will hasten the development of educative communication. Phase I of the project will develop a tactile pitch system that is wearable by school children. It will be based on an existing system, PORTAPITCH (Boothroyd, 1983). Pilot studies will develop training procedures for introducing deaf children to the communication cues available through the system. Phase II will carry out a controlled evaluation of the new system worn by deaf children in first-grade classrooms. Performance measures will describe the types and amount of communication between child and teacher. Commercial application of a successful device would serve to hasten the very slow development by the deaf pupil of the normal basis for learning in the classroom. A further application would be as an aid to the adult deaf for lipreading.

长期目标是产生可穿戴的触觉通信辅助 对于聋人。 与其他触觉相反，该系统将提出 特定的语音功能，语音音调，已知可以提供重要的 关于句法结构和交流意图的沟通线索。 聋学童的孩子非常缓慢地采用通常的对话惯例 在教师和学生之间交换信息。 相信 有关老师的语音音调和节奏的信息将加快 教育交流的发展。 该项目的第一阶段将 开发一个由小学生穿戴的触觉音高系统。 它 将基于现有系统Portapitch（Boothroyd，1983年）。 飞行员 研究将制定培训程序，以引入聋哑儿童 通过系统可用的通信提示。 第二阶段将携带 对聋哑儿童穿着的新系统进行受控评估 一年级教室。 绩效指标将描述类型和 儿童和老师之间的沟通数量。 商业应用 成功的设备将通过 在课堂学习正常基础的聋子学生。 一个 进一步的应用将有助于成人聋人进行唇读。