Caring for Infants: Strategies and Resources for New Parents with Hearing Impairments
2022-2023
#Intelligent Microphone
#Hearing-impaired Parents
#Sound Visualization
HiBaby is a wireless microphone system designed for families with hearing-impaired parents and hearing children. It includes a microphone that collects and identifies the child's sounds, an application that converts the data into visual and vibrational forms, and a real-time display on the user's smartwatch or cell phone. The product helps hearing parents perceive and understand their children's sounds, reduces parenting stress, and strengthens the bond between parents and children. HiBaby's intelligence provides parents with suggestions, such as different colors to represent different reasons for the child's crying, and allows parents to choose the type of sound their child makes to receive personalized alerts.
Product Overview
Outcome
Process
The pain point for hearing impaired parents are that they are always very vigilant about what is happening to their child and they can only understand their child through visual observation because they have lost their auditory channel. They really would like to feel their child's sounds and understand their baby's expression.
Pain Points
Concepts
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Solution
There is a wireless microphone near the baby to detect the sounds of the child. And then the sound was transformed into visual and vibration forms in real time which would be received by the user end of parents like phone or smart watch.
Mood Board
Product Drawing
Model Making
Potential Usage
Tech — — Arduino
The sounds could be detected and received by the sound sensor and then be sent to the analyzer.Tech — — Touch Designer
Construction
Potential Visual Forms
Appendix
Interview
Validation
YULU
“Parents get anxious when they know that their child is crying, and having a product that makes it easier for to learn the cause of baby’s crying is really a convenient thing."
JUE
“The app will be of great help to parents, such as learning about parenting, and can be iterated with more practical features after it is developed.”
Future Expectation
Inclusive
-- Suitable for hearing parents as well who are not familiar with their babies' cry -- Suitable for noisy environments where you can not hear your child's sounds
Extended life cycle
-- Used with the camera, the accuracy of detecting breathing will be higher
Enhance intelligence
-- Intelligent identification of hazards, a step further in safety and security