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What Are the Benefits of Newly Developed Medical Devices When the User Does not Use Them? – An Investigation of Hearing Aid Use

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Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2018)

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Current prognosis raises expectations of an aging of the working population. Hence, dealing with age-related impairments of sensory functions becomes more and more important for the future working world. While vision-related impairments are often corrected, the same is, unfortunately, not true for hearing impairment. This results in the situation, that people with hearing impairments often do not own a hearing aid. Furthermore, even if a person owns a hearing aid, it appears that the hearing aid is not used regularly. Interviews with 18 hearing aid users were conducted to identify barriers to purchase a hearing aid as well as barriers of hearing aid use in their daily (working) life.

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The author would like to thank Julia Engelbrecht, Claudia Gruber and Simon Streit for their support in conducting the interviews, and all participants who participated.

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    Verena Wagner-Hartl

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Wagner-Hartl, V. (2018). What Are the Benefits of Newly Developed Medical Devices When the User Does not Use Them? – An Investigation of Hearing Aid Use. In: Karwowski, W., Ahram, T. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration. IHSI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 722. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73888-8_26

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