Jaudat+shah+Proposal


 * __Scenario 1__**

An 19 year old university student has hearing problems and he has problems listening to music on his laptop. He has this problem because he has limited hearing and the speakers on his laptop are not loud enough and the sound quality is not clear which causes him a lot of problems. A noisy background also does not help with him with his disablity and makes it even harder for him to enjoy listening to his favourite artists.

Must have: A laptop, a program that will allow him to boost the volume on his laptop above the normal volume.

Should have: Good speakers which can give a high volume and sharp and crisp sound so that it is easy for him to hear even in a noisey enviorment. Special software which helps him to change the equaliser settings and also boost the volume of the speakers.

could have: A laptop which has speakers on each corner so that he can adjust the sound to his prefrence and get high volume.


 * __Scenario 2__**

A 30 yearold women has a hearing disablity of not picking a specific frequency of sounds despite even wearing a hearing aid (BTE) she is still unable pick up the special frequency. She loves to chat online and is unable to hear the notification of new messages which she recieves from her friends because the sound is at such a frequency that she is unable to hear it. Due to this factor she is unable to reply to her friends online on time.

Must have: A laptop with a special software that allows the BTE to be connected directly to it so that she can hear the sounds easily.

Should have: Software that can change the frequency on the laptop so that she can hear the sounds easily. She also needs a special software that connects the hearing aid directly to the computer so that she can hear the changed frequency direcltly on the BTE. This help her a lot because even if she is not near the computer all the time she can hear the email notifications direct on her device.

Could have: A laptop that has all these feature so that she can go about using the laptop easily without any limitations. It can also have a special button on the side which helps her connect the hearing aid with just a press of a button so that it is not a hastle going through the pairing process on her laptop with the software.


 * __Scenario 3__**

A secretary working at a bank in toronto is suffering from hearing loss. Her disability causes a lot of set backs for her because she is unable to respond or forward important emails to her boss because she cannot hear the notification sound on her work computer. She does have a software that flashes the screen when ever she gets email but that still is not a good notification for her. Even with the light she sometimes is concentrating on something else and during that time if the screen flashes she

Must have: A computer with the vibrate feature and software that will allow the user to change the brightness of the notification flash.

Should have: Special software that can make the computer screen flash and it should have different settngs like makeing the flash brighter and make it flash in intervals so that a person is able to see it. Another useful feature is that when ever she gets an email the laptop starts to vibrate along with the flash so that she has a better chance to read the email on time.