Personalized Audio Profile Creation for Hearing Sensitivity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audio systems fail to provide personalized audio experiences for users with varying hearing sensitivities and conditions, such as hyperacusis or presbyacusis, as traditional audiological screenings do not account for real-world environments and individual anatomical differences.
Innovation Solution
A wearable device conducts audio assessments using active and passive routines, creating a unique audio profile that describes how a user hears and interprets sounds, which is stored and used to modify audio content presented to the user, enhancing their experience across various applications, including virtual and augmented reality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional audiological screenings are used, then the screening process is simple and quick, but they do not account for real-world environments and individual anatomical differences, resulting in inaccurate audio personalization
Solution Approach 1:
The audio assessment is divided into multiple components: active assessment routines (presenting specific audio stimuli and measuring responses), passive assessment routines (monitoring natural listening behavior), and environmental assessments (evaluating real-world acoustic conditions). Each component addresses specific aspects of hearing ability, allowing comprehensive measurement without requiring a single overly complex test
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs audio assessments and creates personalized audio profiles in advance, before the user needs customized audio content. The audio profile stored in the database contains pre-analyzed hearing characteristics that can be quickly retrieved and applied during content delivery, eliminating the need for complex real-time analysis
2Adaptability or versatility
If personalized audio profiles are created and stored in external databases, then audio personalization can be accessed across multiple devices and applications, but data security and privacy protection become more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary layer between the audio profile data and external access requests. This intermediary validates and filters access to sensitive hearing information, allowing the audio profile to be used for its intended purpose (personalizing audio content) while preventing unauthorized access or misuse of the data
Data Source
AI summary
A system creates an audio profile. The audio profile may be stored in a database. For example, the audio profile may be securely stored in a database of a social network and associated with a user account. The audio profile may contain data describing the way in which the specific user hears and interprets sounds. Systems and applications which present sounds to the user may access the audio profile and modify the sounds presented to the user based on the data in the audio profile to enhance the audio experience for the user.