Akinori Kashio

Designing and Evaluating the User Experience of Wearable Assistive Devices for Single-Sided Deafness

Single-sided deafness (SSD) significantly restricts social participation in hearing/speaking cultures due to the person's difficulty hearing conversations on their deaf side. Although hearing aids for SSD are effective in social situations, the acceptance rate remains low at 4%. To address this problem, we designed an…