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  • Auditory neuroscience
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Signal processing

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  • Improving signal-to-noise ratio in hearing assistance devices is crucial for noisy environments.
  • Biosignal-based methods for noise identification are often unreliable.
  • Head angle is a practical, observable behavior for tracking auditory attention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the reliability of head angle for identifying listening targets in group conversations.
  • To develop and evaluate a hidden Markov model (HMM) based algorithm for source selection.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of publicly available behavioral data from group conversations.
  • Evaluation of a simple head-steering method.
  • Development and testing of an HMM source selection algorithm trained on head movement.

Main Results:

  • Head angle predicts the active talker but shows variability in linear relationship intercepts across different talker layouts.
  • The HMM source selection model significantly reduced errors in identifying auditory attention compared to the head-steering method.
  • Head-steering alone is insufficient for reliably predicting auditory attention location in complex conversational settings.

Conclusions:

  • While head angle offers some predictive power, its reliability is limited in diverse group conversation layouts.
  • The developed HMM-based algorithm demonstrates superior performance in pinpointing auditory attention.
  • This HMM approach offers a promising advancement for hearing assistance technology in complex acoustic environments.