聋人未来:设计和创新助听器
1History, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA jvirdi@udel.edu.
Medical humanities
|December 24, 2024
概括
本文探讨了助听器设计如何反映聋人未来的可能性. 通过分析历史和当代的听力设备,它主张设计,拥抱,而不是隐藏,聋,挑战 ableist 刻板印象.
科学领域:
- 科学,医学和技术的历史 (HSTM)
- 材料文化 学习 文化研究
- 关于残疾人的研究.
背景情况:
- 后人类主义愿景经常提出通过技术消除残疾,设想一个"后聋现实".
- 当代的创新,如助听器,振动背心和手套,旨在"治愈"聋或绕过它.
- 这些技术引发了关于残疾,未来和社会代表性的问题.
研究的目的:
- 通过设计和技术特征,调查聋人听力设备是如何体现未来的.
- 分析助听器审美学的演变,从20世纪中叶的时尚到21世纪的工业设计.
- 探索如何扩大助听器设计超出裁量范围可以培养"crip未来"和挑战能力主义的刻板印象.
主要方法:
- 对助听器的材料文化和设计特征的分析.
- 整合了crip未来和科学,医学和技术 (HSTM) 历史的概念.
- 应用"残疾人目光"概念来重新评估助听器设计.
主要成果:
- 20世纪中叶的助听器包含了时尚元素,而21世纪的数字助听器则采用了优雅的工业美学.
- 谨慎仍然是一个主要的设计特征,旨在尽量减少听力障碍的可见迹象.
- 这项研究强调了助听器的设计选择如何塑造对聋和未来可能性的看法.
结论:
- 扩大助听器设计的范围,超越单纯的自由裁量权,可以为聋人未来打开新的可能性.
- 挑战能力主义的刻板印象,需要改变残疾在技术设计中的表现方式.
- 拥抱"残疾人的目光"可以改变社会对残疾人的表现.
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