A5052859342- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques
- Noise Effects and Management
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
RWTH Aachen University
2022-2024
Many lecturers develop voice problems, such as hoarseness. Nevertheless, research on how quality influences listeners' perception, comprehension, and retention of spoken language is limited to a small number audio-only experiments. We aimed address this gap by using audio-visual virtual reality (VR) investigate the impact lecturer's hoarseness university students' heard text recall, listening effort, impression. Fifty participants were immersed in seminar room, where they engaged Dual-Task...
Exploring the synergy between visual and acoustic cues in virtual reality (VR) is crucial for elevating user engagement perceived (social) presence. We present a study exploring necessity design impact of background sound source visualizations to guide future soundscapes. To this end, we immersed n = 27 participants using head-mounted display (HMD) within seminar room with six peers female professor. Participants engaged dual-task paradigm involving simultaneously listening professor...
The ability to focus ones attention in different acoustical environments has been thoroughly investigated the past. However, recent technological advancements have made it possible perform laboratory experiments a more realistic manner. In order investigate close-to-real-life scenarios, classroom was modeled virtual reality (VR) and an established paradigm auditory selective (ASA) switch translated from audio-only version into audiovisual VR setting. new validated with adult participants...
Most studies investigating the effects of environmental noise on children’s cognitive performance examine impact monaural (i.e., same signal to both ears), oversimplifying multiple aspects binaural hearing adequately reproducing interaural differences and spatial information). In current study, a realistic classroom-noise scenario presented either monaurally or binaurally tasks requiring processing auditory visually information were analyzed in children adults. Experiment 1, across age...
In the past years, more and effort has been made to bring reality in lab investigate cognitive performance a close-to real life manner and, thus, increase validity of current research. A first step towards being ecologically valid is using dynamic binaural reproduction, which offers an accurate representation allows participants engage acoustic scene. study on noise effects regarding auditory selective attention children, Loh et al. 2021 found that children were impaired by noise, while...
A teacher’s poor voice quality may increase listening effort in pupils, but it is unclear whether this effect persists adult listeners. Thus, the goal of study to examine impact vocal hoarseness on university students' a virtual seminar room. An audio-visual immersive reality environment utilized simulate typical room with common background sounds and fellow students represented as wooden mannequins. Participants wear head-mounted display are equipped two controllers engage dual-task...