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The effect of age and hearing loss on partner-directed gaze in a communicative task

Davis, C; Kim, J; Tuomainen, O; Hazan, VL; (2017) The effect of age and hearing loss on partner-directed gaze in a communicative task. In: Ouni, S and Davis, C and Jesse, A and Beskow, J, (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP2017). (pp. D1.S1.2). KTH Green open access

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Abstract

The study examined the partner-directed gaze patterns of old and young talkers in a task (DiapixUK) that involved two people (a lead talker and a follower) engaging in a spontaneous dialogue. The aim was (1) to determine whether older adults engage less in partner-directed gaze than younger adults by measuring mean gaze frequency and mean total gaze duration; and (2) examine the effect that mild hearing loss may have on older adult’s partner-directed gaze. These were tested in various communication conditions: a no barrier condition; BAB2 condition in which the lead talker and the follower spoke and heard each other in multitalker babble noise; and two barrier conditions in which the lead talker could hear clearly their follower but the follower could not hear the lead talker very clearly (i.e., the lead talker’s voice was degraded by babble (BAB1) or by a Hearing Loss simulation (HLS). 57 single-sex pairs (19 older adults with mild Hearing Loss, 17 older adults with Normal Hearing and 21 younger adults) participated in the study. We found that older adults with normal hearing produced fewer partner-directed gazes (and gazed less overall) than either the older adults with hearing loss or younger adults for the BAB1 and HLS conditions. We propose that this may be due to a decline in older adult’s attention to cues signaling how well a conversation is progressing. Older adults with hearing loss, however, may attend more to visual cues because they give greater weighting to these for understanding speech.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: The effect of age and hearing loss on partner-directed gaze in a communicative task
Event: AVSP 2017: International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, 25-26 August 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Dates: 25 August 2017 - 26 August 2017
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://avsp2017.loria.fr/proceedings/
Language: English
Additional information: This is the published version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: speech communication, partner-directed gaze, hearing loss, Diapix
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1571109
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