short questionnaire for people having profoundly hearing loss(cannot have HA or CI)

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Dear All,

We are PhD students at Imperial College London. We plan to invent a new equipment which might help people with profoundly hearing loss in both ears (cannot wearing hearing aids or Cochlear Implants). However, we do not have this problem ourselves, and we do not know how exactly you feel, so we decide to post some questions here, and hope you could give us a hand.

1, Do you worry about your safety when you walk on the street, or cross the road? (cause you cannnot hear some danger)


2, Have you met the situation that you cannot hear the alarms in a building?


3, When you are at home, do you feel it is inconvenient, as you cannot hear the beeping of microwaves, doorbell ect.


4, Have you met the situation that somebody called you, but you ignored them?


5, Could you please write down all the problems you met, which was caused by that you cannot hear something.


6, If you have HA or CI, but you still have these problems, you are also welcome to talk about it, but could you please mentioned that you have HA or CI.


Best wishes,
Leo and Tom
 
Jiazhi said:
Dear All,

We are PhD students at Imperial College London. We plan to invent a new equipment which might help people with profoundly hearing loss in both ears (cannot wearing hearing aids or Cochlear Implants). However, we do not have this problem ourselves, and we do not know how exactly you feel, so we decide to post some questions here, and hope you could give us a hand.

1, Do you worry about your safety when you walk on the street, or cross the road? (cause you cannnot hear some danger)

NAH. I was born profoundly Deaf. I become more aware around me.

2, Have you met the situation that you cannot hear the alarms in a building?

all the time, i can see the lights flash or people look panic that everything based on my observation.



3, When you are at home, do you feel it is inconvenient, as you cannot hear the beeping of microwaves, doorbell ect.
Nah, i am aware if i do something then i have to be there. That's what the light flashes are for. :)



4, Have you met the situation that somebody called you, but you ignored them?

All the time, i dont feel guilty or bad. Just the way my life goes. LOL if they get mad, its their problem, not mine. :D



5, Could you please write down all the problems you met, which was caused by that you cannot hear something.

I cant think of something because I dont feel embarrassed or something.


6, If you have HA or CI, but you still have these problems, you are also welcome to talk about it, but could you please mentioned that you have HA or CI.

HA. I dont remember. I am an ASL user.

Best wishes,
Leo and Tom
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I hope it is inclucded pay fee. :lol:
 
Frisky Feline said:
I hope it is inclucded pay fee. :lol:
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Thanks a lot Frisky, but the reason I asked these questions is not to see if you can bear the problems, but to see if you got any inconvenience when you have to bear them. For example a lady having hearing loss was hit by a trolley in a supermarket, because she cannot hear someone shouting behind her. It is definitely not your fault when something like this happens, but did you get any unhappy experience like this?
 
Jiazhi said:
Dear All,

We are PhD students at Imperial College London. We plan to invent a new equipment which might help people with profoundly hearing loss in both ears (cannot wearing hearing aids or Cochlear Implants). However, we do not have this problem ourselves, and we do not know how exactly you feel, so we decide to post some questions here, and hope you could give us a hand.

1, Do you worry about your safety when you walk on the street, or cross the road? (cause you cannnot hear some danger)


2, Have you met the situation that you cannot hear the alarms in a building?


3, When you are at home, do you feel it is inconvenient, as you cannot hear the beeping of microwaves, doorbell ect.


4, Have you met the situation that somebody called you, but you ignored them?


5, Could you please write down all the problems you met, which was caused by that you cannot hear something.


6, If you have HA or CI, but you still have these problems, you are also welcome to talk about it, but could you please mentioned that you have HA or CI.


Best wishes,
Leo and Tom
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Is this new equipment going to let a person know from which direction the 'dangerous ' sound is coming from , or it's going have a person walking right into danger ?
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Is this new equipment going to let a person know from which direction the 'dangerous ' sound is coming from , or it's going have a person walking right into danger ?
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Something better than that. I am sorry we are just students, we have not patented it yet, so cannot tell you too much. I am sorry, but generally speaking, yes, it informs you the danger
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Is this new equipment going to let a person know from which direction the 'dangerous ' sound is coming from , or it's going have a person walking right into danger ?
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i mean informs you the danger which coming with a sound...poor English...
 
Jiazhi said:
Yes, that's why they need an equipment to help them to 'hear'
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Yeah but will it let you know where the sound is coming from , if a person can't hear a sound they are not going to know which way to go to avoid the danger. I have a better idea , made an equipment that will zap rude people that hit deaf and hoh people with their shopping cart . There is no excuse to hit a person with a shopping cart because they do not move out of the way.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Yeah but will it let you know where the sound is coming from , if a person can't hear a sound they are not going to know which way to go to avoid the danger. I have a better idea , made an equipment that will zap rude people that hit deaf and hoh people with their shopping cart . There is no excuse to hit a person with a shopping cart because they do not move out of the way.
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Funny! But good one!
 
This is rather confusing. You're coming up with something to help the deaf, ones that don't use CI or a HA, that will allow the deaf to "hear" danger coming. HAs and CI help us hear, without them we don't hear anything. This isn't making sense. Since we can't hear why don't you think if some way to alert us to danger with a sense we do have like sight or feeling??? Doesn't that make more sense?
 
ambrosia said:
This is rather confusing. You're coming up with something to help the deaf, ones that don't use CI or a HA, that will allow the deaf to "hear" danger coming. HAs and CI help us hear, without them we don't hear anything. This isn't making sense. Since we can't hear why don't you think if some way to alert us to danger with a sense we do have like sight or feeling??? Doesn't that make more sense?
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Agreed. I don't think they fully understand what it means to be deaf.
 
ambrosia said:
This is rather confusing. You're coming up with something to help the deaf, ones that don't use CI or a HA, that will allow the deaf to "hear" danger coming. HAs and CI help us hear, without them we don't hear anything. This isn't making sense. Since we can't hear why don't you think if some way to alert us to danger with a sense we do have like sight or feeling??? Doesn't that make more sense?
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Yeah but we still will need to know where the danger is coming from, just feeling a vibration may not be enough warming to get out of harm way. And when I was crossing a street I use my eyes to see if safe to cross the street.
If someone where to yell "Look out " that is not going to help as you have no idea what you're looking out for or which way to look . So feeling a vibration seem useless to me if you do not what you're feeling it for.
 
Clearly, being Deaf means you can hear sounds! OBVIOUSLY!

We can't hear, so a sound will alert us to oncoming dangers in the home... like the microwave exploding! :shock:
 
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