text: 466,17,1498669784745009158,1047899041311412224,Francois Grondin,"Our new paper where we introduce SmartBelt, a belt equipped with 8 microphones and 15 haptic motors that provides the user with haptic feedback to indicate the direction of arrival of sound. This could eventually benefit people with hearing impairment. <LINK>",https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13974,"This paper introduces SmartBelt, a wearable microphone array on a belt that performs sound source localization and returns the direction of arrival with respect to the user waist. One of the haptic motors on the belt then vibrates in the corresponding direction to provide useful feedback to the user. We also introduce a simple calibration step to adapt the belt to different waist sizes. Experiments are performed to confirm the accuracy of this wearable sound source localization system, and results show a Mean Average Error (MAE) of 2.90 degrees, and a correct haptic motor selection with a rate of 92.3%. Results suggest the device can provide useful haptic feedback, and will be evaluated in a study with people having hearing impairments. ","SmartBelt: A Wearable Microphone Array for Sound Source Localization