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Designing For Human-Machine Collaboration: Smart Hearing Aids As Wearable Technologies, Krista Kennedy
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 …
"We're Still Here!": The Rhetorical Education Of The Prince Edward County Free School Association, 1963-1964, Rebecca Candace Epps-Robertson
"We're Still Here!": The Rhetorical Education Of The Prince Edward County Free School Association, 1963-1964, Rebecca Candace Epps-Robertson
Writing Program – Dissertations
>"We're Still Here!": The Rhetorical Education of the Prince Edward County Free School Association, 1963-1964, was directed by Lois Agnew. In 1954, the Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors voted to withhold funding to public schools in reaction to the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. Public schools remained closed for five years in this county. The White community created and sustained a private segregation academy. The Black community worked to provide a variety of programs to keep students engaged. In 1963, the Kennedy Administration took note of the Black community's plight. Black community leaders and members of the Kennedy …