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A context-aware audio presentation method in wearable computing

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Shinichi Yataka,

Kohei Tanaka,

Tsutomu Terada,

Masahiko TsukamotoAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 405 - 412

https://doi.org/10.1145/1982185.1982274

Published: 21 March 2011 Publication History

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Audio usage is one of the more widely-applicable methods of information presentation in wearable computing environments since it can be used hands-free, requires only small devices like earphones, and does not interfere with most tasks compared with other methods including visual displays. However, since presented sound is often drowned out by ambient noise or conversational voice, a user is forced to turn the volume up to catch the audio information. Therefore, we propose an audio information presentation method that takes into account the user contexts. In our proposed method, a system estimates the user contexts based on the data from wearable sensors and a microphone, and then controls and presents the audio information so that it can be surely audible by changing the volume and the timing for presentation. The evaluation results confirmed the effectiveness of our proposed method.

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A context-aware audio presentation method in wearable computing
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Sound and music computing
  2. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Specialized information retrieval
      1. Multimedia and multimodal retrieval
        Music retrieval

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SAC '11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

March 2011

1868 pages

ISBN:9781450301138

DOI:10.1145/1982185

Conference Chairs:
William Chu
Tunghai University, TaiChung, Taiwan
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W. Eric Wong
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
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Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis
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Chih-Cheng Hung
Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta

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