A real-time selective speaker cancellation system for relieving social anxiety in autistics

Proceedings of the 2013 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 420-423

  Wang, Xi ^a   Xi, Zhao ^a   Gnawali, Omprakash ^a   Loveland, Katherine A ^b   Prakash, Varun ^a   Shi, Weidong ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory hypersensitivity; Autism; selective speaker cancellation; social anxiety

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; AUTISM; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; PROTOTYPING SYSTEMS; SELECTIVE SPEAKER CANCELLATION; SOCIAL ANXIETIES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

DISEASES; HEALTH CARE;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84883069250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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