Movement and Gaze Behavior in Virtual Audiovisual Listening Environments Resembling Everyday Life.

ABSTRACT: Recent achievements in hearing aid development, such as visually guided hearing aids, make it increasingly important to study movement behavior in everyday situations in order to develop test methods and evaluate hearing aid performance. In this work, audiovisual virtual environments (VEs) were designed for communication conditions in a living room, a lecture hall, a cafeteria, a train station, and a street environment. Movement behavior (head movement, gaze direction, and torso rotation) and electroencephalography signals were measured in these VEs in the laboratory for 22 younger normal-hearing participants and 19 older normal-hearing participants. These data establish a reference for future studies that will investigate the movement behavior of hearing-impaired listeners and hearing aid

SUBMITTER: Hendrikse MME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6732870 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature