Recruiting Deaf or Hard of Hearing people to Evaluate a Smartwatch-based Sound Awareness App
Are you deaf or hard of hearing? We need your help designing the next-generation of accessible smartwatches!
Our research team is studying how next-generation devices such as smartwatches can be used to provide sound awareness. We are recruiting participants who are deaf "or" hard of hearing and 18 years of age or older.
The study will contain three parts: (1) an initial 60-min interview session on the University of Michigan North Campus, (2) a three-week use of our smartwatch app in your own environment, and a (3) final 90-min interview on your experience on the University of Michigan North Campus.
In the initial interview session, we will collect some demographic information about you (e.g., age, gender, Deaf identity), ask you about your daily experience with sounds, and give you a brief demo of our smartwatch sound awareness app. We will then give you our smartwatch and you will use it for a period of three weeks in your daily life. At the end of the three-week period, you will be asked to come back to the U-M campus for the final interview where we will ask about your experience with our app. We will also collect our smartwatch back.
We will compensate you $30/hour for the interviews and $25/week of the smartwatch use for a total of $150 if you complete all parts of the study. If you instead choose to withdraw in between, we will reimburse you for the completed period.
If you are interested in participating, please email Jeremy Huang (zjhuang@umich.edu) with the following information:
- Your identity (Deaf, deaf, or hard of hearing).
- Degree of hearing loss (an approximate is fine—e.g., severe, profound).
- Two or three possible days/times to meet between now and March 15. We are available any day of the week including Saturday and Sunday.
- Any required accommodations (e.g., ASL interpreter, realtime captioner).
Jeremy Huang
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
For more details on our work, see our lab's webpage.