Yong-Jie Yang

Be My Ears: Enabling Semantic Alerting for Earphone Wearers with Pheme

Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) earphones provide immersive listening experiences but induce auditory isolation to earphone users, leaving them vulnerable to hazards and socially disconnected. We present Pheme, an agentic framework that transforms ANC earphones into context-aware auditory assistants. Informed by two us...