A home automation based environmental sound alert for people experiencing hearing loss.

Different assistive technologies are available for deaf people (i.e. deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing).

AUDIS wear: a smartwatch based assistive device for ubiquitous awareness of environmental sounds.

A multitude of assistive devices is available for deaf people (i.e. deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing).

Design and evaluation of a smartphone application for non-speech sound awareness for people with hearing loss.

Auditory cues provide people with information about events outside of their field of view and can so help detecting potential hazards. People with severe hearing loss, i.e.

An assistive technology for hearing-impaired persons: analysis, requirements and architecture.

In this contribution, a concept of an assistive technology for hearing-impaired and deaf persons is presented. The concept applies pattern recognition algorithms and makes use of modern communication technology to analyze the acoustic environment around a user, identify critical acoustic signatures and give an alert to the user when an event of interest happened. A detailed analysis of the needs of deaf and hearing-impaired people has been performed.

The assessment of non-inferiority in a gold standard design with censored, exponentially distributed endpoints.

The objective of this paper is to develop statistical methodology for non-inferiority hypotheses to censored, exponentially distributed time to event endpoints. Motivated by a recent clinical trial in depression, we consider a gold standard design where a test group is compared with an active reference and with a placebo group. The test problem is formulated in terms of a retention of effect hypothesis.