Predicting the effect of headphones on the time to localize a target in an auditory-guided visual search task

P. Lladó, R. Barumerli, R. Baumgartner, P. Majdak
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In augmented reality scenarios, headphones obstruct the direct path of the sound to the ears, affecting the users’ abilities to localize surrounding sound sources and compromising the immersive experience. Unfortunately, the assessment of the perceptual implications of wearing headphones on localization in ecologically valid scenarios is costly and time-consuming. Here, we propose a model-based tool for automatic assessment of the dynamic localization degradation (DLD) introduced by headphones describing the time required to find a target in an auditory-guided visual search task. First, we introduce the DLD score obtained for twelve headphones and the search times with actual listeners. Then, we describe the predictions of the headphone-induced DLD score obtained by an auditory model designed to simulate the listener’s search time. Our results indicate that our tool can predict the degradation score of unseen headphones. Thus, our tool can be applied to automatically assess the impact of headphones on listener experience in augmented reality applications.
预测耳机对听觉引导视觉搜索任务中目标定位时间的影响
在增强现实场景中,耳机会阻碍声音直接传入耳朵的路径,影响用户定位周围声源的能力,影响身临其境的体验。遗憾的是,在生态有效的场景中评估佩戴耳机对定位的感知影响既费钱又费时。在此,我们提出了一种基于模型的工具,用于自动评估耳机带来的动态定位衰减(DLD),描述在听觉引导的视觉搜索任务中找到目标所需的时间。首先,我们介绍了 12 款耳机的 DLD 分数以及实际听者的搜索时间。然后,我们描述了一个旨在模拟听者搜索时间的听觉模型对耳机引起的 DLD 分数的预测。结果表明,我们的工具可以预测未见耳机的降级分数。因此,我们的工具可用于自动评估耳机对增强现实应用中听众体验的影响。
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