Music Flows Though You - Kuuntelua iholla ja luita myöten

Vibrotactile aids in daily living solutions When your ears cannot hear, let your whole body do the job. This is the case for some deafened persons, even with ABI or CI as they might not benefit from the devices in their full capacity or do so with minimal benefit. There might also be contraindications. Furthermore, the devices might be unreachable for people in the developing countries. The f igure on the poster is showing the body percept of a sentence. As you can see, there is still a lot of information coming through the body, the main element being the prosody, that is pitch and intensity characteristics. This information is conveyed through the touch-based methods . Those can be combined with the visual communication methods either within a conversation or in enjoying music. The vibration alerts on smart phones also use sense of touch to relay the information. Traditionally people with no acoustical hearing have used their palm under the jawbone on the side of the nec...

Vibrotactile references Darki & Rankin 2021. Perceptual rivalry with vibrotactile stimuli. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 83: 2613-2624. Papetti & Saitis 2018. Musical Haptics. Springer Open. Malone, Eberhardt, Wimmer, Sprouse, Klein, Glomb, Scholl, Bokeria, Cho, Deco, Jiang, Bernstein & Riesenhuber 2019. Neural mechanisms of vibrotactile categorization. Human Brain Mapping 40: 3078-3090. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24581 Novich & Eagleman 2015. Using space and time to encode vibrotactile information: toward an estimate of the skin’s achievable throughput. Exp Brain Res 233: 2777-2788. Remache-Vinueza, Trojillo-León, Zapata, Sarmiento-Ortiz & Vidal-Verdú 2021. Audio-Tactile Rendering: A Review on Technology and Methods to Convey Musical Information through the Sense of Touch. Sensors 21, 6575. Citation: Mikula L, Sahnoun S, Pisella L, Blohm G, Khan AZ (2018) Vibrotactile information improves proprioceptive reaching target localization. PLoSONE 13(7): e0199...

   Collection of  links to vibrotactile devices Taikofon https://www.taikofon.com/ SUBPAC - The New Way to Experience Sound: Feel it.™ https://subpac.com/ HUMU Augmented Audio Cushion https://humu.fi/ Cineum Cannes https://celluloidjunkie.com/ wire/cannes-film-festival- 2022-will-feel-and-sound-even- better/?fbclid= IwAR2qnakHYh29UJGDXEY5hS27zhsg dNqngDZfpdsN6KnUEv0f_ g27fhxneSM   Neosensory https://neosensory.com/ feelthesound/?fbclid= IwAR1Jwp4nmTA5lZE6ZuHK- vGLGOfovb1MOj9EuKTJI3pvoVxao1V d4pUdcIY  Vibrotactile Jacket for Perception Enhancement (pdf) Sylvain Cardin, Daniel Thalmann VRLab , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 1015 Lausanne - Switzerland sylvain.cardin@epfl.ch daniel.thalmann@epfl.ch  Do you know other devices? Please contact us!  Tiedätkö muita laitteita? Kerro meille!

Pictures and explanations from poster presentation at the IFHOH2022 world congress on vibrotactile devices in listening to music without hearing and/or  getting support to lip reading.   Liisa Sammalpenger (left) ans PhD Stina Ojala (right) ready to introduce  gadgets that help you in listening music and give some support to lip reading if you don't hear.  Vibes from Peaceful  Guitar  from Spotify through HUMU by  bluetooth connection from  a mobile phone.  Neeta Keshery,  President of  SHRUTI, the National Association of the Hard of Hearing and Deafened , Nepal, listening with her chest and fingers.  Ursula Soffner, Deutscher Schwerhörigenbund, Germany,   who gave presentation on  electric "artificial" ears,  now testing prototype of  Tactilator's  wooden vibrating  conductor in her fingers. Wooden spoon is a natural conductor of  voice. Supports lipreading while giving  hints of in...

European Neurofibromatosis Meeting, Dec. 14, 2020 Rotterdam.   The whole congress was online because of Covid-19 after postponed tvice  as normal meeting In NF2 section  there was a 5 minutes  Spoken Poster Presentation on  Vibrotactile Aids in Daily Living Solutions  by Liisa Sammalpenger and Stina Ojala EU_NF2020a1_5min (yhdistysavain.fi)  It was held on the Public Day after  two days  as Scietific. There was a poster on the same name  on scientific programme. Rotterdamista, Alankomaista käsin järjestettiin koronan vuoksi etänä  Euroopan NF-kokous  joulukuussa 2020.  Siellä oli mukana yleisöpäivänä viiden minuutin puheposteri.  Vibrotaktiilit kojeet arjessa apuna  Tieteellisellä puolella oli samasta aiheesta posteri. suomeksi_NF2_5min (yhdistysavain.fi)