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Speaker localization and cancellation for improving social attention

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Autistic individuals suffer from sensory impairment and can become frustrated in conversational settings involving multiple people [3]. For this reason, many choose to avoid certain social settings filled with different sounds. Such behavior only adds to their lack of necessary social skills and inhibits them from joining others in regular conversation. In this paper, we describe a fully-interactive system that allows autistic persons to choose which person's speech they would like to focus on, thereby giving them a sense of control.

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C. E.-W. J. Kola and T. Pruthi. Voice activity detection, 2011.
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W. D. Scott D. Tomchek. Sensory Processing in Children With and Without Autism: A Comparative Study Using the Short Sensory Profile. In Am J Occup Ther. 2007 Mar-Apr;61(2):190--200.

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ICCPS '13: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 4th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
April 2013
278 pages
ISBN:9781450319966
DOI:10.1145/2502524

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