Listening in: An Exploration of Forms for Hearing Aid Design
Motivated to inspire more proactive hearing aid adoption and retention, this thesis explores how to generate new forms for OTC hearing aids. In the process of doing so, the opportunity gap between the success of consumer audio hearables and the lack of proactivity for hearing aid adoption is investi...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| author | Tjan, Janice |
| author2 | Coelho, Marcelo |
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| description | Motivated to inspire more proactive hearing aid adoption and retention, this thesis explores how to generate new forms for OTC hearing aids. In the process of doing so, the opportunity gap between the success of consumer audio hearables and the lack of proactivity for hearing aid adoption is investigated. Information collected from interviews, surveys and codesign sessions was synthesized into three design considerations: expressivity, versatility, and extensibility. Feedback and critique about existing hearable forms inspired the formulation of a user-centric design method for hearing aid form design and two example implementations of this method are presented. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1447522022-08-30T03:10:22Z Listening in: An Exploration of Forms for Hearing Aid Design Tjan, Janice Coelho, Marcelo Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture Motivated to inspire more proactive hearing aid adoption and retention, this thesis explores how to generate new forms for OTC hearing aids. In the process of doing so, the opportunity gap between the success of consumer audio hearables and the lack of proactivity for hearing aid adoption is investigated. Information collected from interviews, surveys and codesign sessions was synthesized into three design considerations: expressivity, versatility, and extensibility. Feedback and critique about existing hearable forms inspired the formulation of a user-centric design method for hearing aid form design and two example implementations of this method are presented. S.B. 2022-08-29T16:09:16Z 2022-08-29T16:09:16Z 2022-05 2022-07-26T13:33:00.377Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144752 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright retained by author(s) https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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