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Reversing Voice-Related Biases Through Haptic Reinforcement

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Biased perceptions of others are known to negatively influence the outcomes of social and professional interactions in many regards. Theses biases can be informed by a multitude of non-verbal cues such as voice pitch and voice volume. This project explores how haptic effects, generated from speech, could attenuate listeners' perceived voice-related biases formed from a speaker's voice pitch. Promising preliminary results collected during a decision-making task suggest that the speech to haptic mapping and vibration delivery mechanism employed does attenuate voice-related biases. Accordingly, it is anticipated that such a system could be introduced in the workplace to equalize people's contribution opportunities and to create a more inclusive environment by reversing voice-related biases.

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    UIST '18 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
    October 2018
    251 pages
    ISBN:9781450359498
    DOI:10.1145/3266037
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    1. affective computing
    2. haptics
    3. social computing
    4. speech

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