The introduction of multimedia on pervasive and mobile communication devices raises a number of perceptual quality issues, however, limited work has been done examining the 3way interaction between use of equipment, quality of perception and quality of service. Our work measures levels of informational transfer (objective) and user satisfaction (subjective) when users are presented with multime...

Understanding the relation between perceived and produced speech for individual language users is important for theories of speech perception and production, and for theories of the phonetic bases of sound change. The research program described in this paper is guided by the hypothesis that a language user's perception and production repertoires are complexly related in ways mediated by wide-ra...

Voting through Short Message Service (SMS) technology is fast and reliable as the mobile technology in Malaysia is quite advanced. Most of the SMS voting mechanism is easily understood by the public. There is no need to explain the voting process in detail as almost 80% of the mobile users know how to use the SMS service. SMS voting is just another way of sending a vote to the recipient by usin...

The aim was to know the perception of crack/cocaine users about the use and treatment in a midsize general hospital, located in Rio Grande do Sul. It is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research that used semi-structured interviews with eight crack users,from September to October 2010. To analyze the data, we used content analysis from which two semantic categories emerged: drug use a...

The present electroencephalographic (EEG) study investigated the ability of cochlear implant (CI) users to recognize emotional prosody. Two CI speech-processing strategies were compared: the ACE (Advance Combination Encoder) and the newly developed MP3000. Semantically neutral sentences spoken in three different emotional prosodies (neutral, angry, happy) were presented to 20 post-lingually dea...

IMPORTANCE A review of a test battery presented in both quiet and noise may clarify what the progression of speech perception abilities is in older adult cochlear implant users and whether the performance declines with advancing age. OBJECTIVE To examine whether older adults (≥65 years) with cochlear implants maintain stable speech perception performance after at least 10 years of listening e...

This study uses a qualitative methodology to examine the perception of acupuncture among users and nonusers. Altogether 37 participants, age 35 or older, were interviewed. Participants' perception of advantages and disadvantages of adopting acupuncture, and their criteria in selecting acupuncturists, were collected. Results found that among the user group, acupuncture was perceived as being eff...

Due to limitations of cochlear implant (CI) technology in transmitting fundamental frequency (f0), there is poor perception of lexical tone by CI users. Here simulated cochlear implant audio is used to investigate the role of visual speech information in Mandarin tone discrimination. Results showed that visual information improved tone perception in both Mandarin and Australian English listener...