Inclusive Hearing Wellness and Audio Accessibility in public spaces

公共场所的包容性听力健康和音频无障碍

• 批准号: 10056343
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: MUMBLI LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10056343
• 关键词: Inclusive; Hearing; Wellness; Audio; Accessibility

More than half of us are surrounded by noise and sound that negatively affects our productivity, wellbeing and behaviour. Over 60% of the population are affected by some form of decreased sound tolerance. While the impacts of hearing loss may be more acute for some people than others, to the point of disability, it affects almost everyone at some point in their life.Currently, most public spaces are poorly designed for sound.Deafness and hearing reduction affects around 466 million people worldwide (WHO), and in the UK, there are 12 million adults with hearing loss greater than 25 dBHL(RNID). For 25% of the population that is either hard of hearing or reliant on hearing devices such as hearing aids, the poor design of spaces actively deters them from socialisation and spending money with those venues, reducing wellbeing and the productivity of the hospitality sector.Mumbli, is the first and only smart hearing wellness platform, using sound monitoring devices (IoT) to Certify Venues for Sound based on quality of conversation and noise levels. The platform is designed to prevent unpleasant, hearing-damaging environments before they are created and provide an audible inclusive environment for all hearing preferences.Created at the intersection between science, psychology and wellness, we want to connect people with public spaces where conversation is possible.Mumbli is looking at three main areas of benefit to people with disabling hearing loss:* the space you are in* how your ears experience sound, and* technology.As the hospitality sector recovers from COVID impacts, Mumbli's platform has the potential to make a global impact by making businesses audibly inclusive and thus appeal to a wider demographic who may have otherwise been deterred from going out.With Mumbli, hospitality businesses can manage sound in their spaces for safe, healthy communication and communicate information about the venue atmosphere to users, all while catering to an individual's sound preferences and needs.

超过一半的人被噪音和声音所包围，这些噪音和声音对我们的工作效率、健康和行为产生了负面影响。超过60%的人口受到某种形式的声音容忍度下降的影响。虽然听力损失对某些人的影响可能比其他人更严重，甚至达到残疾的程度，但它几乎影响到每个人在生活中的某个阶段。目前，大多数公共空间的声音设计都很差。全世界约有4.66亿人受到耳聋和听力下降的影响（世卫组织），在英国，有1200万成年人的听力损失超过25 dBHL（RNID）。对于25%有听力障碍或依赖助听器等听力设备的人来说，糟糕的空间设计阻碍了他们的社交活动，也阻碍了他们在这些场所花钱，从而降低了酒店业的幸福感和生产力。Mumbli是第一个也是唯一一个智能听力健康平台，使用声音监控设备（IoT）根据对话质量和噪音水平对场所进行声音认证。该平台旨在防止不愉快的听力损害环境，并为所有听力偏好提供一个可听的包容性环境。在科学、心理学和健康的交叉点上创建，我们希望将人们与公共空间联系起来，在那里可以进行对话。Mumbli正在研究对听力损失患者有利的三个主要方面：*你所处的空间*你的耳朵如何感受声音，以及*科技。随着酒店业从COVID的影响中复苏，Mumbli的平台有可能通过使企业更具包容性来产生全球影响，从而吸引更广泛的人群，否则他们可能会被阻止外出。借助Mumbli，酒店企业可以管理其空间中的声音，以实现安全、健康的通信，并向用户传达有关场地氛围的信息，同时满足个人的声音偏好和需求。