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Effectiveness of the haptic chair in speech training

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The 'Haptic Chair' [3] delivers vibrotactile stimulation to several parts of the body including the palmar surface of the hand (palm and fingers), and has been shown to have a significant positive effect on the enjoyment of music even by the profoundly deaf. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of using the Haptic Chair during speech therapy for the deaf. We conducted a 24-week study with 20 profoundly deaf users to validate our initial observations. The improvements in word clarity observed over the duration of this study indicate that the Haptic Chair has the potential to make a significant contribution to speech therapy for the deaf.

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Gault, R. H. "Touch as a substitute for hearing in the interpretation and control of speech," Arch. Otolaryngol, 3, pages 121--135, 1926.
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Nanayakkara, S. C., Taylor, E., Wyse, L. and Ong, S. H. An enhanced musical experience for the deaf: Design and evaluation of a music display and a haptic chair. In Proc. CHI'09, pp. 337--346, 2009.
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ASSETS '12: Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2012
321 pages
ISBN:9781450313216
DOI:10.1145/2384916

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