SoundModVR: Sound Modifications in Virtual Reality to Support People who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Xinyun Cao, Dhruv Jain · 2024 · Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)
This paper challenges the prevailing approach to VR sound accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people, which has focused almost exclusively on substituting audio with visual or haptic alternatives (captions, flashing indicators, vibrations). The authors argue that…
deaf and hard of hearing · virtual reality · sound modification · audio accessibility · partial hearing