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Designing For Human-Machine Collaboration: Smart Hearing Aids As Wearable Technologies, Krista Kennedy

Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition - All Scholarship

This study examines design aspects that shape human/machine collaboration between wearers of smart hearing aids and their networked aids. The Starkey Halo hearing aid and the TruLink iPhone app that facilitates real-time adjustments by the wearer offer a case study in designing for this sort of collaboration and for the wearer’s rhetorical management of disability disclosure in social contexts. Through close textual analysis of the company’s promotional materials for patient and professional audiences as well as interface analysis and autoethnography, I examine the ways that close integration between the wearer, onboard algorithms and hardware, and geolocative telemetry shape everyday interactions …

In Memoriam; By Alfred, Lord Tennyson; A Photographic Interpretation, Eunice Blanchard

English - All Scholarship

In Memoriam; by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; A Photographic Interpretation is a photographic essay completed by Eunice Blanchard in 1947 as an English Term Paper at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. Blanchard tells the story of Tennyson's poem through original photography.

Acknowledgements:

Arthur W. Brown, Instructor in English; C. Wesley Brewster, Instructor in Photography; D.M. Norton, Assistant to Mr. Brewster; Photography Models: Janet Clark, Betty Sanders, Aubrey Vaughn Woolsey. Jr.

This is the original work of Eunice Blanchard, under CCBY 4.0. It is an open-access work, copyrighted and licensed by the author for re-use.