Research Article | June 01, 2003Using Talking Lights Illumination-Based Communication Networks to Enhance Word Comprehension by People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Roderick T. Hinman, E. C. Lupton, PhD, Steven B. Leeb, Al-Thaddeus Avestruz, Robert Gilmore, Donald Paul, and Nancy Peterson Author Affiliations & Notes Roderick T. Hinman Talking Lights, LLC, Boston, MA E. C. Lupton, PhD Talking Lights, LLC, Boston, MATalking Lights, LLC, 28 Constitution Road, Charlestown, MA 02129 Steven B. Leeb Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Al-Thaddeus Avestruz Talking Lights, LLC, Boston, MA Robert Gilmore Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing, Boston, MA Donald Paul Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing, Boston, MA Nancy Peterson Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing, Boston, MA Corresponding author: e-mail: neil@talking-lights.com Copyright © 2003 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Article Information Hearing Disorders / Research and Technology / Research Articles Research Article | June 01, 2003 Using Talking Lights Illumination-Based Communication Networks to Enhance Word Comprehension by People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing American Journal of Audiology, June 2003, Vol. 12, 17-22. doi:10.1044/1059-0889(2003/005) History: Received June 23, 2002 , Accepted January 16, 2003 American Journal of Audiology, June 2003, Vol. 12, 17-22. doi:10.1044/1059-0889(2003/005) History: Received June 23, 2002; Accepted January 16, 2003 View Article Figures Tables PDF PDF Supplemental Data Supplements Multimedia Share Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest Tools Get Citation Citation Hinman, R. T., Lupton, E. C., Leeb, S. B., Avestruz, A., Gilmore, R., Paul, D., & Peterson, N. (2003). Using Talking Lights Illumination-Based Communication Networks to Enhance Word Comprehension by People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Am J Audiol, 12(1), 17-22. doi: 10.1044/1059-0889(2003/005). Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager © 2018 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association × Alerts User Alerts You are adding an alert for: Using Talking Lights Illumination-Based Communication Networks to Enhance Word Comprehension by People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing You will receive an email whenever this article is corrected, updated, or cited in the literature. You can manage this and all other alerts in My Account The alert will be sent to: Confirm × Sign In or Create a free account to receive alerts. × This article details a new method that has been developed to transmit auditory and visual information to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. In this method, ordinary fluorescent lighting is modulated to carry an assistive data signal throughout a room while causing no flicker or other distracting visual problems. In limited trials with participants who are deaf or hard of hearing, this assistive system, combined with commercial voice recognition software, showed statistically significant improvement in sentence recognition compared to recognition of audio-only or audio-plus-speech-reading stimuli. Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Randolph Easton of the Psychology Department of Boston College for valuable discussions concerning the statistics used in this work. 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