Isna Alfi Bustoni, Mark McGill, and Stephen Anthony Brewster. 2024. Exploring the Alteration and Masking of Everyday Noise Sounds using Auditory Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 154–163. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678957.3685750
While noise-cancelling headphones can block out or mask environmental noise with digital sound, this costs the user situational awareness and information. With the advancement of acoustically transparent personal audio devices (e.g. headphones, open-ear audio frames), Auditory Augmented Reality (AAR), and real-time audio processing, it is feasible to preserve user situational awareness and relevant information whilst diminishing the perception of the noise. Through an online survey (n=124), this research explored users’ attitudes and preferred AAR strategy (keep the noise, make the noise more pleasant, obscure the noise, reduce the noise, remove the noise, and replace the noise) toward different types of noises from a range of categories (living beings, mechanical, and environmental) and varying degrees of relevance. It was discovered that respondents’ degrees of annoyance varied according to the kind of noise and its relevance to them. Additionally, respondents had a strong tendency to reduce irrelevant noise and retain more relevant noise. Based on our findings, we discuss how AAR can assist users in coping with noise whilst retaining relevant information through selectively suppressing or altering the noise, as appropriate.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3678957.3685750
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