Designing Intelligent Parenting Assistive Products for People with Hearing Impairments

Abstract

Due to hearing loss and the particularity of parenting scenarios, the deaf community faces parenting difficulties in areas such as infant care, safety monitoring, parent-child communication, and early education. This study aims to enhance the sense of security, autonomy and quality of parent-child interaction among the hearing-impaired in parenting, and to provide better humanistic care and parenting assistance to hearing-impaired families. Using case analysis and literature review methods, this study systematically dissects the behavioral patterns, emotional demands, and environmental interaction characteristics of hearing-impaired parents during the parenting cycle from a user-centered perspective. The study constructs a design framework centered on visual, tactile, and intelligent feedback. The framework integrates multimodal information transformation technology, context-aware interaction mechanisms and accessibility design concepts. Guided by the framework for designing child-assisted products for hearing-impaired parents, this study developed an intelligent child-assisted product with cross-sensory perception of infant status, visual alerts for emergencies, and two-way communication between parents and children on a daily basis. This study not only provides efficient parenting support tools for hearing-impaired parents, but also opens up new theoretical and practical directions for the design of accessible products, which is of great significance for promoting the construction of an inclusive society and practicing the concept of technology for good.

Keywords: Parenting Assistive Products, Product Design, Hearing-impaired Parents, Sensory Compensation, Inclusive Design

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1008016