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Abstract | ||
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In recent years, portable music players become popular due to high usability. However, EU and WHO have pointed out that there is a possibility of causing hearing loss when users listen to music at loud volume and long time. Therefore, it is necessary how to prevent hearing loss. In previous research, it found optimum volume level when listening to music. But it didn't find noticed volume level by listener when volume level of music is gradually attenuated. In this paper, we evaluated whether to be able to lower from loud volume level to safe volume level without the users notice. First, we measured the volume level that the users listen to music daily. We called this volume the optimum listening level. As a result, we found that seven out of the twelve listened to volumes more than 80dB. Next, we measured the difference of level between the 85 dB volume level and the volume level noticed by users when volume level of music is gradually attenuated. We called this difference of level the difference of perceived level by attenuating. As a result, young people noticed when volume level was attenuated 12 +/- 4 dB without being affected changing attenuation rate of volume level. Elderly people noticed in the range of 13 +/- 4 dB as with young people. |
Year | Venue | Field |
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2016 | 2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS (ICCE) | Computer science,Volume measurement,Usability,Active listening,Speech recognition,Hearing loss,Listening level,Music player |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Teruhisa Higashi | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Yuto Tanaka | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Yoshihisa Nakatoh | 3 | 29 | 16.29 |