Raising People's Awareness of Hearing Health with Pleasant and Interactive Hearing Test Designs Installed in Public Spaces

Yaliang Chuang; Tomas Gecevičius

doi:10.1145/3430524.3442465

Raising People's Awareness of Hearing Health with Pleasant and Interactive Hearing Test Designs Installed in Public Spaces

Yaliang Chuang
, Tomas Gecevičius

Industrial Design

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Hearing loss is an emerging health challenge, but very few people check their hearing periodically. Unidentified hearing loss can lead to depression and social isolation. To improve public awareness of hearing health, we design an interactive testing system for being used in public spaces. It aims to create unexpected encounters with users and engage them in examining their hearing health regularly. We conducted two evaluations and reported the results in this paper. Firstly, we compared the hearing test results of our design and the conventional audiometry testing. The correlation is 0.78 on average. Secondly, we evaluated the user experience with 12 visitors in an art museum. The nature sounds and interactive design provided users a feeling of calm and made the testing an engaging experience. Meanwhile, the visualization triggered users' discussions and reflections on the testing results. Overall, our design shows the potentials in raising people's awareness of hearing health.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TEI '21
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Editors	Raphael Wimmer
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-8213-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3442465
Publication status	Published - 14 Feb 2021
Event	15th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Austria Duration: 14 Feb 2021 → 19 Feb 2021

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Conference	15th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2021
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Virtual, Online
Period	14/02/21 → 19/02/21

Keywords

audiometry test
hearing loss
public hearing test
seeking help behavior

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Chuang, Y., & Gecevičius, T. (2021). Raising People's Awareness of Hearing Health with Pleasant and Interactive Hearing Test Designs Installed in Public Spaces. In R. Wimmer (Ed.), TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Article 57 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3442465

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Chuang, Y & Gecevičius, T 2021, Raising People's Awareness of Hearing Health with Pleasant and Interactive Hearing Test Designs Installed in Public Spaces. in R Wimmer (ed.), TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction., 57, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, 15th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2021, Virtual, Online, Austria, 14/02/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3442465

Raising People's Awareness of Hearing Health with Pleasant and Interactive Hearing Test Designs Installed in Public Spaces. / Chuang, Yaliang; Gecevičius, Tomas.
TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ed. / Raphael Wimmer. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2021. 57.

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