Gubitak sluha i tinitus svakodnevno u znatnoj mjeri otežavaju govornu komunikaciju pogođenim osobama. Teškoće slušanja uzrokovane njima mogu se ublažiti različitim terapijskim pristupima, međutim rehabilitacijski postupci usmjereni na poboljšanje kod odrasle populacije slabo su zastupljeni zdravstvenom sektoru. U novije vrijeme, računalni programi za tretiranje različitih zdravstvenih teškoća s...

The increasing number of geographically dispersed work teams present ever-increasing opportunities for new collaboration tools and services. Earlier this year, a geographically dispersed research team decided to prototype and informally evaluate an audio-only mediaspace, which was code-named The Corner Office. This prototype was built using an audio teleconferencing bridge augmented with web-ba...

3-D audio systems, which can surround a listener with sounds at arbitrary locations, are an important part of immersive interfaces. A new approach is presented for implementing 3-D audio using a pair of conventional loudspeakers. The new idea is to use the tracked position of the listener's head to optimize the acoustical presentation, and thus produce a much more realistic illusion over a larg...