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

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)
no, i do what everyone ( including hearing people ) do and look before i walk into a road... :roll:


2, have you met the situation that you cannot hear the alarms in a building?
no, most alarms in buildings flash. Also, when i see a crowd of people running away in terror, i generally assume i should do the same...


3, when you are at home, do you feel it is inconvenient, as you cannot hear the beeping of microwaves, doorbell ect.
ummmm, no. My microwave will not typically explode if i walk away and miss it by a minute or two... I have a doorbell that flashes the lights when people ring it...


4, have you met the situation that somebody called you, but you ignored them?
ignored? As in intentionally? Oh all the time! I ignore people every day! Being deaf obviously just gives me an excuse to do so. If you're asking if i've ever not heard someone call me... All the time! It's not the end of the world, they can tap me or something if i'm not looking...


5, could you please write down all the problems you met, which was caused by that you cannot hear something.
i really don't think i have any problems that are caused by me not hearing... I'm good...


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.
i do have a ci, but i'm referring to when i'm not wearing it, or before i had the operation. I rarely wear it outside of work and i get along just fine...:d


best wishes,
leo and tom
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I am angry it has un-capitalized all of my letters that are supposed to be.... WTF!? :doh:
 
Mewtilation said:
I am angry it has un-capitalized all of my letters that are supposed to be.... WTF!? :doh:
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Microwaves stoves will turn off when they're done and mine light up 'END' I can hear mine beep when I have my HA on it and drive me nuts . I wish it would not beep .
 
mewtilation said:
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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huh ??? It un-capitalized all of my letters that are supposed too. What is going on here is right.
 
The worst problem is microwave popcorn. It can over pop and burn because I can not hear it.

The best invention would be a flashing light on the popcorn bag so I could always get it out in the exact right time.
 
You can tell when it stops just by the fact the bag stops jumping around.
 
Mewtilation said:
I am angry it has un-capitalized all of my letters that are supposed to be.... WTF!? :doh:
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The same thing bugged me. "Have you met the situation that someone called you but you ignored them?" Wtf is that? Not hearing something is not ignoring it!! When you ignore something there is an implication there that you noticed something but purposely do not give it your attention. If we don't hear something then it does not get our attention so we therefore are not intentionally not giving it out attention.

It's possible there's a language problem here, but it still burns ass.
 
Bottesini said:
The worst problem is microwave popcorn. It can over pop and burn because I can not hear it.

The best invention would be a flashing light on the popcorn bag so I could always get it out in the exact right time.
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Soooo true. That's one of those times I get one of the kids, stand here and listen to the popcorn. The popcorn button is rubbish, and the smell of burnt popcorn is heinous.
 
ambrosia said:
The same thing bugged me. "Have you met the situation that someone called you but you ignored them?" Wtf is that? Not hearing something is not ignoring it!! When you ignore something there is an implication there that you noticed something but purposely do not give it your attention. If we don't hear something then it does not get our attention so we therefore are not intentionally not giving it out attention.

It's possible there's a language problem here, but it still burns ass.
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Burns ass... :laugh2: I'm going to have to use that one... :laugh2:

Yes, I think it's just a lack of correct wording. He did state this was not his first language, so I let it go with a snarky reply, nothing more. :P
 
ambrosia said:
Soooo true. That's one of those times I get one of the kids, stand here and listen to the popcorn. The popcorn button is rubbish, and the smell of burnt popcorn is heinous.
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Burnt popcorn is the WORST! It really burns my biscuits when it smells fine and looks fine but you take a bite and it has that slight burnt taste! :mad: I work with a guy who likes his popcorn burnt. We HATE every time he makes it because the whole break area smells like burnt popcorn for HOURS!!! :mad: I can't even watch him eat it... makes me sick... :ugh:
 
With the microwave popcorn, I just stand in front of the microwave and watch the bag shaked. When the popcorn bag stop shaking, then I know it was all done, so either I opened the microwave door or knowing the timer had stopped. That is how I do it. :cool2: :)
 
A Nihilist said:
You can tell when it stops just by the fact the bag stops jumping around.
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Ahhh but you may be getting it out too early, or a little too late! The timing is so important. You may have a bunch of unpopped kernels in there, or it might be a little overdone!! you got to wait til it gets to 10 seconds, not 5, not 15 or 20 haha, but 10 seconds between pops for it to be peeeerfect!! or hell maybe it's 20 seconds I don't remember it's been a long time since I tried to listen to when popcorn stops popping.

From what I understand microwaveable popcorn is horrible for you, I'd like to get a real popcorn maker but I don't really eat enough popcorn to justify it. Maybe I'd eat more if I got one though. At least until the novelty of having a new gadget wears off :D
 
Mewtilation said:
Burns ass... :laugh2: I'm going to have to use that one... :laugh2:

Yes, I think it's just a lack of correct wording. He did state this was not his first language, so I let it go with a snarky reply, nothing more. :P
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Oops there should be a my between burns and ass, it burns my ass, not sure about general ass, but maybe haha
 
Bottesini said:
The worst problem is microwave popcorn. It can over pop and burn because I can not hear it.

The best invention would be a flashing light on the popcorn bag so I could always get it out in the exact right time.
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I buy the single serving size popcorn. Took two bags before I found out the perfect amount of seconds. So I wrote that down so the next bag would be perfect and I lost my posted note. It was either 43 or 73 seconds. I have found out not to use the popcorn button on the microwave. Dang...now I want popcorn.
 
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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I mean our device hlep people who cannot have CI or HA (some people lose heaing totally and CI and HA won't help) The device will give you some sense to feel the danger, but we don't know if you have these problems or not. So the reason I am here is to see if you need such a device to help you
 
Jiazhi said:
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?
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nah, remember I was born Deaf. I am an ASL user. Since I was a kid, and my parents taught me how to be myself and dont be afraid. I remember when some people got angry that they thought I was ignoring them. I simply signed to them, "Hello, what's up?" Their face were bitter at first then their facial expression become like they were deer in the headlights. While they saw my hands moving as to sign in front of them by communicating to them. Either They got silent or keep saying, " I am sorry." or " Ah, NEVER MIND!" they walked out on me. :D For your information, I had an awesome childhood, and life. I have beautiful children, & family.
 
Bebonang said:
With the microwave popcorn, I just stand in front of the microwave and watch the bag shaked. When the popcorn bag stop shaking, then I know it was all done, so either I opened the microwave door or knowing the timer had stopped. That is how I do it. :cool2: :)
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True. Thats what I do, and memorize the timer that i know the popcorns taste better!!
 
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Some brands are different though. :dunno2: I don't really eat much popcorn, though I have a love for kettle corn! :D I should go get some of that.... mmmmm....
 
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