As we age, the functions of our body and sensory organs deteriorate. Diagnosis of hearing problems tends to be delayed and people put off wearing hearing aids as they are not aware of the deterioration and get used to paying little attention to their hearing difficulty. Adaptation of sound is necessary because sound quality perceived with hearing aids differs from that of normal sound. Detection of hearing problems at an earlier stage is important. An audiometer that can screen persons with hearing loss easily at an early stage is necessary. In this paper, a prototype of the simple audiometer as the audiometer classified into type 4 for screening/monitoring purposes regulated in IEC standards, proposed in the previous research, is developed on the mobile phone by Java application program and ringing tones of mobile phones. The functions and performance of the prototype are verified along IEC standards.
realized by downloading the program From the server conlputer to the mobile phone. After the test saved tenlpora"ly in the memory ofthe mobile phone, the data is managed as an electronic hearing database by Io the IOnes are made from the possible Abslract-As hearing loss progresses gradually, people are not aware of the deterioration progress and get used to living with hearing difficulties, and delay wearing hearing aids. When starting to use hearing aids the adaptation of sound is necessary, since sound quality perceived at the current time differs from that of the former. Adaptation is highly ellective at an early stage of slight hearing loss and accordingly the detection of hearing problems at an earlier stage is important. maximum sound Pressure level by steps o f 5 dB and saved For these reasons, audiometers are necessary which can into i-melody fomlat files [3]. The test tones of each easily screen persons with hearing loss progressing at an frequency from 250 Hz to 8 kHz were packed into each early stage. In this paper, an audiometric test system for virtual folder. In the test, afler one of the frequency folders Screening Purposes named MobileAndiometer was developed was selected, the test tone corresponding to the test hearing using the ringing tones, Java program of the mobile phone, level was presented sequentially by the i .~~~l i program, as shown in Fig. 1. are through the Internet' The to and the server computer on the 1nternet.The present possibility of MobileAudiometer as a regulated audiometer was examined by verifying the function and the performance in terms of IEC standard. The results shoved that there was the practicable possibility of mobile phones being applied to a simple audiometry for screening use.
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