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The hearing-impaired person has high risks of accidents by the car or the motorcycle out of the door. In this study, the wearable hearing support system which can identify the direction of sound source by using the interaural time differences (ITDs) of sound pressure and inform the sound source direction to the hearing-impaired person via the vibration of vibrators on the shoulders is developed. This system could inform the direction of the front, side, even rear sound source to the hearing-impaired person dynamically.
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Shimoyama, R., Syou, I. (2018). Wearable Hearing Support System Tapping Toward Sound Source. In: Ferraresi, C., Quaglia, G. (eds) Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2017. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 49. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61276-8_81
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