This thesis investigates the design of Tactons: structured vibrotactile messages for presenting
multidimensional information non-visually. Tactons (tactile icons) are the tactile equivalent …

… tactile icons can be designed to better resist the influence of ambient sounds. The two pairs
of tactile icons which were identified as … that performance was better without music or with the …

… The music sounded better than it would through regular … emotional constructs, guided by
expressed extra-musical … Tactile vibrations are heard in auditory cortex in the deaf: study …

… better to be deaf than to be hearing, but we are saying that it is not necessarily better to be
hearing than deaf. … in which Deaf music challenges the essentialist notion that music is tied to …

… deaf people; all of the studies which investigate the music … identification is better when the
distance between musical … a way to be able to identify emotion in music; using more likely …

… subjects reported that music generally sounds better, 90% … prevalent in central and western
Europe, containing emotional lyrics, … of musical intervals by musical intervals by deaf subjects …

… in Nordic terms) for the better eye. The definition of deafness is that the threshold exceeds …
the choice of responses, ie how many times music was chosen (in percentage of total choices)…

… Besides, the in-turn group improved more their mood as well as their feelings about their
partner. The idea that music playing is a shared experience (Overy, 2012) is interesting to …

… processing and appreciation might depend on the time of deafness … emotions in CI users
[38]. However, it seems that this deficit could be partially compensated with enhanced musical …

… music materials for the deaf … better position to understand the hearing mechanism and the
nature of hearing loss, to diagnose, prevent, and provide the academic, social, and emotional …