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  • Audiology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Facemasks became ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic, posing challenges for deaf individuals reliant on lipreading.
  • The mouth region is vital for inferring emotions and forming social impressions.
  • The impact of facemasks on social inferences, specifically trustworthiness, in deaf versus hearing individuals remains under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether facemasks affect social inferences, particularly trustworthiness judgments, differently in deaf and hearing individuals.
  • To explore the role of visual facial cues, specifically the mouth region, in social perception.

Main Methods:

  • Participants (deaf and hearing) evaluated the trustworthiness of computer-generated faces.
  • Faces were manipulated to display varying levels of trustworthiness.
  • Some faces were presented with facemasks occluding the mouth region.

Main Results:

  • Deaf and hearing individuals performed similarly in judging faces without facemasks.
  • Deaf individuals rated faces with facemasks as less trustworthy compared to hearing participants.
  • This suggests facemasks impede the processing of essential facial information for deaf individuals.

Conclusions:

  • Facemasks significantly impact trustworthiness judgments for deaf individuals by obstructing vital mouth cues.
  • The occlusion of the mouth area prevents holistic facial processing, hindering communication and social interaction for the deaf community.
  • Understanding these challenges is crucial for developing more inclusive communication strategies.