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User Evaluation of the SYNFACE Talking Head Telephone

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2006)

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Abstract

The talking-head telephone, Synface, is a lip-reading support for people with hearing-impairment. It has been tested by 49 users with varying degrees of hearing-impaired in UK and Sweden in lab and home environments. Synface was found to give support to the users, especially in perceiving numbers and addresses and an enjoyable way to communicate. A majority deemed Synface to be a useful product.

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  1. Dept of Speech, Music and Hearing, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Eva Agelfors, Jonas Beskow, Inger Karlsson & Giampiero Salvi

  2. Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), London, EC1Y 8SL, UK

    Jo Kewley & Neil Thomas

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

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  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. The Universal Math Access Lab, University of San Francisco, 281 Masonic San Francisco, 94117, CA, USA

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Agelfors, E., Beskow, J., Karlsson, I., Kewley, J., Salvi, G., Thomas, N. (2006). User Evaluation of the SYNFACE Talking Head Telephone. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788713_86

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