Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-v9fdk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-20T01:28:34.739Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

REFRAMING HEARING AIDS – EXPLORING THE DESIGN SPACE OF ANALOGUE FASHIONABLE HEARING AIDS FOR USERS WITH MILD HEARING IMPAIRMENTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Hermann Klöckner  and
Martin Wiesner
Hermann Klöckner
Affiliation:
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
Martin Wiesner*
Affiliation:
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
*
Wiesner, Martin, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany, [email protected]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Contemporary digital in ear hearing aids are of significant importance for social participation of users with hearing impairments. Through the advancement of technology, extreme miniaturisation of these devices has been achieved. However, by no means all people who could benefit from a hearing aid actually use one. Cormack and Fortnum state that the majority (80%) of adults aged 55–74 years who would benefit from a hearing aid, do not use them. This is in line with Arnold and Makenzie who estimate a gap of a factor of 5 between people who would benefit from the use of a hearing aid than actually do acquire and use one. Even according to the statistics from the Federal Guild of Hearing Aid Acousticians in Germany, only 3.7 million use a hearing aid out of 5.4 million who have an induced hearing loss. This article explores the design space of fashionable analogue contemporary hearing aids.

Keywords

Inclusive designOpen innovationHearing AidGenerative DesignUser centred design
Type
Article
Information
Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023 , pp. 3045 - 3054
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BYCreative Common License - NCCreative Common License - ND
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.
Copyright
The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

References

Arnold, P. and MacKenzie, I., 1998. Rejection of hearing aids: A critical review. Journal of Audiological Medicine, 7, pp.173–199.Google Scholar
Algazi, V.; Duda, R.; Satarzadeh, V.; “Physical and Filter Pinna Models Based on Anthropometry”; Journal of The Audio Engineering Society, 2007, no paginationGoogle Scholar
ART+COM, “river is”, Gwangju, South Korea, 2012, https://artcom.de/?project=river-is,; ; retrieved 21.11.2022Google Scholar
Cameron, B. and Cunningham, E., “Hearing Aid Use and Satisfaction in Young Australian Adults With Severe to Profound Hearing Loss”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology, May 2008, pp.59–72CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carvalho, Luísa Cagica (2019), “Social Innovation as a Promoter of the Welfare: The Case of One Dollar Glasses in Brazil”, University of São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1–10CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hassenzahl, Dörrenbacher and (2019), “Changing Perspective: A Co-Design Approach to Explore Future Possibilities of Divergent Hearing; Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conf.; https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300259CrossRefGoogle Scholar
DGTF Conference “Reflecting Research, 2016, Y-Method”, pp. 5. https://draft.dgtf.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Tagung-2016.pdf ; retrieved 21.11.2022Google Scholar
Helmholtz, Hermann L.F. (1895) ; “Sensations of Tone”, p. 43; Third Edition, Longmans, Green & Co, LondonGoogle Scholar
Hughes, Amy (2021), “What are patients' beliefs about, and experiences of, adaptation to glasses and how does this affect their wearing habits?”, Journal of the College of Optometrists The College of Optometrists, London; pp. 1034–1047Google ScholarPubMed
Kätsyri, Jari (2015), “A review of empirical evidence on different uncanny valley hypotheses: support for perceptual mismatch as one road to the valley of eeriness”, Frontiers in Psychology, Sec. Cognitive Science, no paginationCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Klöckner, Albrecht (1984), “Zigzag breakwater”, Patent WO1985004436A1 PCTGoogle Scholar
Kutter, Anton (1958); “The Schiefspiegler (Oblique Telescope)”, Sky and Telescope Bulletin, Sky Publishing Corp., Harvard Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts pp. 65–67Google Scholar
Lupea, Julian; “CONSIDERATIONS ON THE HELMHOLTZ RESONATOR SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT”, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY, Series A, Volume 13, Number 2/2012, pp. 118–124Google Scholar
Maurer, U., Maurer, P., Ernst & Marchand, C. (2022). Orette. Die Hörhilfe für Genießer. . Accessed 01.12.2022. Available at https://www.orette.de/Google Scholar
McCormack, A. and Fortnum, H., 2013. “Why do people fitted with hearing aids not wear them?” International journal of audiology, 52(5), pp.360–368.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mills, M., (2011) “Hearing Aids and the History of Electronics Miniaturization”, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, pp. 24–44, https://www.academia.edu/6058944/Hearing_Aids_and_the_History_of_Electronics_Miniaturization_2011_, retrieved 28.11.2022Google Scholar
Radtke, R. (2022), “Hörgeminderte und Hörgeräte-Versorgung in Deutschland in den Jahren 2019 bis 2021”, https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/71443/umfrage/hoergeminderte-und-hoergeraete-versorgung-in-deutschland/; retrieved 21.11.2022Google Scholar
Riley, M. (2022). Earglasses. Sound Magnifiers. Accessed 01.12.2022. Available at https://www.earglasses.comGoogle Scholar
Hutchison Miller, Reese, 1899, “Un aparato audífono para uso de personas sordas. ES24426A1⋅1899-07-16” https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/064177303/publication/ES24426A1?q=pn%3DES24426A1 ; retrieved 22.11.2022Google Scholar