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 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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Bachelor

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Tjan, Janice

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Coelho, Marcelo

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144752

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/144752