Abstract:
The completion of "Cochlear Implants: Different Generations Share a Miracle" brings journalism, photography, design, and audio together in an interactive multimedia presentation. The presentation tells three separate success stories of cochlear implant recipients. Each story consists of a slide show of still photographs accompanied by audio clips from interviews conducted with each recipient. Viewers can control the show by clicking on stop, play, rewind and main buttons. The emphasis of this project is the positive impact cochlear implants have on recipients of different generations. Not only is this a personal interest story, but it is also educational and informative for viewers. Hearing is something that many people take for granted. These individual's stories encourage the viewer with normal hearing to think about how precious and valuable the sense of hearing is. Conversely, these stories can give hope and information to those who are hearing impaired.
