During this individual project I’ve done research and set up personas, concepts, visual designs, prototyping and user tests.
People aged 9 to 25 years old belong to the risk group of the National Hearing Foundation. Music at high volume is the number one cause of hearing damage in the Netherlands. The foundation wants to prevent hearing damage.
The problem:
How can the charity National Hearing Foundation develop an interactive installation for visitors of the event “‘tweetakt”, so that the message: “Prevent hearing damage” gets across?
The solution:
In order to achieve the goal, I conducted research into the target group, what hearing damage means and how to prevent it. There are various forms of hearing damage, for example one person hears a continuous beep while the other can hear less.
You can do a hearing test online and I had the target group do this during my research. I found out that they have no idea what it is like to have hearing damage, but are much more conscious after the test.
That’s why I made an interactive installation where people can experience what it’s like to have hearing damage. Trust me: hearing loss is no fun.