Design for everyone: Apple AirPods and the mediation of accessibility

Gilmore, James N.

doi:10.1080/15295036.2019.1658885

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“…The digital benefit was attributed to greater high frequency amplification ( 13 ). New digital processing strategies within 2nd generation tinnitus HA and the emergence of made for iPhone HAs ( 39 ) may have resulted in some increment improvements in outcomes, although evidence for this is poor. Sound introduced in this next generation of HAs included synthesized natural sounds, such as ocean surf sounds ( 18 ).…”

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“…Biometric sensors saw the Bragi Dash emerge as a trend setter amongst these first generation Hearables ( 61 ). Some of these companies are no longer operating [e.g., Soundhawk ( 39 ); Doppler ( 62 ) or have moved from manufacturing to focus on AI development as a 3rd party for other manufacturers Bragi ( 63 )]. The 2016 introduction of Apple Air Pods, for which “Live Listen” allows functioning as basic HAs, signaled an important juncture for access to augmented communication ( 39 ) and digital tinnitus therapies.…”

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“…Some of these companies are no longer operating [e.g., Soundhawk ( 39 ); Doppler ( 62 ) or have moved from manufacturing to focus on AI development as a 3rd party for other manufacturers Bragi ( 63 )]. The 2016 introduction of Apple Air Pods, for which “Live Listen” allows functioning as basic HAs, signaled an important juncture for access to augmented communication ( 39 ) and digital tinnitus therapies. Recent Apple accessibility updates to Air Pods include the availability of background sounds, that could be used for tinnitus masking.…”

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A State-of-Art Review of Digital Technologies for the Next Generation of Tinnitus Therapeutics

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Doborjeh

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Front. Digit. Health

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Background: Digital processing has enabled the development of several generations of technology for tinnitus therapy. The first digital generation was comprised of digital Hearing Aids (HAs) and personal digital music players implementing already established sound-based therapies, as well as text based information on the internet. In the second generation Smart-phone applications (apps) alone or in conjunction with HAs resulted in more therapy options for users to select from. The 3rd generation of digital tinnitus technologies began with the emergence of many novel, largely neurophysiologically-inspired, treatment theories that drove development of processing; enabled through HAs, apps, the internet and stand-alone devices. We are now of the cusp of a 4th generation that will incorporate physiological sensors, multiple transducers and AI to personalize therapies.Aim: To review technologies that will enable the next generations of digital therapies for tinnitus.Methods: A “state-of-the-art” review was undertaken to answer the question: what digital technology could be applied to tinnitus therapy in the next 10 years? Google Scholar and PubMed were searched for the 10-year period 2011–2021. The search strategy used the following key words: “tinnitus” and [“HA,” “personalized therapy,” “AI” (and “methods” or “applications”), “Virtual reality,” “Games,” “Sensors” and “Transducers”], and “Hearables.” Snowballing was used to expand the search from the identified papers. The results of the review were cataloged and organized into themes.Results: This paper identified digital technologies and research on the development of smart therapies for tinnitus. AI methods that could have tinnitus applications are identified and discussed. The potential of personalized treatments and the benefits of being able to gather data in ecologically valid settings are outlined.Conclusions: There is a huge scope for the application of digital technology to tinnitus therapy, but the uncertain mechanisms underpinning tinnitus present a challenge and many posited therapeutic approaches may not be successful. Personalized AI modeling based on biometric measures obtained through various sensor types, and assessments of individual psychology and lifestyles should result in the development of smart therapy platforms for tinnitus.

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“…In this focus on the marketing paratexts around apps, I follow a number of other scholars of mobile media who have attended closely to marketing and the way it depicts and addresses particular users and particular kinds of user. Elman (2018), Simon (2020) and Gilmore (2019) have all demonstrated, although not explicitly foregrounded, the significance of advertising and marketing as shaping the meanings of mobile media and their apps. My analysis of these marketing materials, vlogs, and online interviews are supplemented with an interview, undertaken in January 2018, with Thomas Hauk, international business director for Mimi.…”

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Commodifying Diversity in the Marketing of a Digital Hearing Start-Up

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2021

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This article will unpack the consequences of the convergence between hearing aids and mobile phones. It deploys an analysis of the marketing of two hearing and communication apps from one start-up: a smartphone-based hearing test and a music app which tweaks users’ audio to accommodate their hearing profile. This article argues that both apps and the marketing for them can be seen as examples of biomediation. Rather than marketing hearing apps through biomedical categories to people who recognize themselves as disabled or “hearing impaired,” these apps are framed as personalizing music to fit a unique “earprint.” The article draws on two concepts used to understand this “disruption of the non-disabled/disabled binary” (Puar 2017, xvii, xviii): debility and diversity. Finally, the article offers a critical perspective on the political meanings of the term “diversity” and argues that the categorization of apps has important political consequences.

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“…In my ongoing research on the ways in which wearable technologies gain legitimacy and exercise authority at the level of the everyday (Gilmore 2016(Gilmore , 2017(Gilmore , 2019(Gilmore , 2020, I have repeatedly stressed how the promoters of wearable technologies reproduce imaginaries about the transformation of everyday life via what some have called 'datafication' (Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier 2014), or the conversion of habit and routine into (largely quantified) data sets to be analyzed, standardized, and used to model and even predict populational behaviour. Imaginaries describe how values and meanings are formed socially, discursively, and culturally (Taylor 2004, Balsamo 2011, Markham 2021).…”

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