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Hearables as a Gateway to Hearing Health Care [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, 2022
The market for hearing technology is evolving—with the emergence of hearables, it now extends beyond hearing aids and includes any ear-level devices with wireless connectivity (i.e., wireless earbuds).
Hye Yoon Seol, Il Joon Moon
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A Survey on the Affordances of “Hearables” [PDF]

Inventions, 2018
Recent developments pertaining to ear-mounted wearable computer interfaces (i.e., “hearables”) offer a number of distinct affordances over other wearable devices in ambient and ubiquitous computing systems.
Marta Kersten-Oertel, Kersten-Oertel Marta   +1 more
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Hearables: Bioelectronics technological challenges and opportunities [PDF]

Wearable Technologies
Wearable devices placed in or around the ear, often referred to as hearables, are gaining attention as alternative tools for pseudo-continuous health monitoring.
Leping Yu, Luis Fernando Herbozo Contreras, Zhaojing Huang, Yang Yang, Bobby Chen, Omid Kavehei   +5 more
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Sound Localization with Hearables in Transparency Mode [PDF]

Audiology Research
Background: Transparency mode in hearables aims to maintain environmental awareness by transmitting external sounds through built-in microphones and speakers. While technical assessments have documented acoustic alterations in these devices, their impact
Sebastian A. Ausili, Nathan Erthal, Christopher Bennett, Hillary A. Snapp   +3 more
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The Principles of Hearable Photoplethysmography Analysis and Applications in Physiological Monitoring–A Review [PDF]

Sensors, 2023
Not long ago, hearables paved the way for biosensing, fitness, and healthcare monitoring. Smart earbuds today are not only producing sound but also monitoring vital signs.
Khalida Azudin, Kok Beng Gan, Rosmina Jaafar, Mohd Hasni Ja’afar   +3 more
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Hearables: feasibility of recording cardiac rhythms from single in-ear locations [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
The ear is well positioned to accommodate both brain and vital signs monitoring, via so-called hearable devices. Consequently, ear-based electroencephalography has recently garnered great interest.
Metin Yarici, Wilhelm Von Rosenberg, Ghena Hammour   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Towards the Application of Hearables for Near-Fall Detection

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2023
Introduction: Falls and gait disorders often result in hospitalization and immobilization. Near-falls may be one of the earliest signs of increased fall risk.
Sandra Hellmers, Jessica Koschate, Tania Zieschang   +2 more
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Classification of Breathing Phase and Path with In-Ear Microphones [PDF]

Sensors
In recent years, the use of smart in-ear devices (hearables) for health monitoring has gained popularity. Previous research on in-ear breath monitoring with hearables uses signal processing techniques based on peak detection.
Malahat H. K. Mehrban, Jérémie Voix, Rachel E. Bouserhal   +2 more
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An In-Ear PPG-Based Blood Glucose Monitor: A Proof-of-Concept Study [PDF]

Sensors, 2023
Monitoring diabetes saves lives. To this end, we introduce a novel, unobtrusive, and readily deployable in-ear device for the continuous and non-invasive measurement of blood glucose levels (BGLs).
Ghena Hammour, Danilo P. Mandic
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Hearables: Multimodal physiological in-ear sensing [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2017
Future health systems require the means to assess and track the neural and physiological function of a user over long periods of time, and in the community.
Valentin Goverdovsky, Wilhelm von Rosenberg, Takashi Nakamura, David Looney, David J. Sharp, Christos Papavassiliou, Mary J. Morrell, Danilo P. Mandic   +7 more
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