Conversational greeting detection using captioning on head worn displays versus smartphones

Abstract

People who are deaf and hard of hearing often have difficulty realizing when someone is attempting to get their attention, especially when mobile. Speech recognition coupled with a head-worn display (HWD) may aid in awareness of when someone calls the user's name. As our intended users are often oversubscribed with experiments, we chose to test non-deaf and hard of hearing subjects while refining our procedures. Preliminary findings from three hearing participants wearing sound masking headphones and performing a mobile task suggest that a HWD display may be faster than, and preferred to, a smartphone for displaying captions for attending to one's name being called.