Social, Cultural and Systematic Frustrations Motivating the Formation of a DIY Hearing Loss Hacking Community

Aisling Ann O'Kane; Abdinasir Aliomar; Rebecca Zheng; Britta  Schulte; Gianluca Trombetta

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300531

Social, Cultural and Systematic Frustrations Motivating the Formation of a DIY Hearing Loss Hacking Community

Aisling Ann O'Kane
, Abdinasir Aliomar
, Rebecca Zheng
, Britta Schulte
, Gianluca Trombetta

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Abstract

Research on attitudes to assistive technology (AT) has shown both the positive and negative impact of these technologies on quality of life. Building on this research, we examine the sociocultural and technological frustrations with hearing loss (HL) technologies that motivate personal approaches to solving these issues. Drawing on meet-up observations and contextual interview data, we detail participants’ experiences of and attitudes towards hearing AT that influences hacking hearing loss. Hearing AT is misunderstood as a solution to the impairment, influencing one-to-one interactions, cultural norms, and systematic frustrations. Participants’ exasperation with the slow development of top-down solutions has led some members to design and develop their own personalised solutions. Beyond capturing a segment of the growing DIY health and wellbeing phenomenon, our findings extend beyond implications for design to present recommendations for the hearing loss industry, policy makers, and importantly, for researchers engaging with grassroots DIY health movements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9781450359702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300531
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019
Event	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019

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Conference	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19

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Digital Health
SPHERE
Bristol Interaction Group

Keywords

DIY
Health
Assistive technologies
hearing loss
social
hacking

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O'Kane, AA, Aliomar, A, Zheng, R, Schulte, B & Trombetta, G 2019, Social, Cultural and Systematic Frustrations Motivating the Formation of a DIY Hearing Loss Hacking Community. in CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 301, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300531

Social, Cultural and Systematic Frustrations Motivating the Formation of a DIY Hearing Loss Hacking Community. / O'Kane, Aisling Ann; Aliomar, Abdinasir; Zheng, Rebecca et al.
CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 301.

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