{"id":4079,"date":"2026-08-12T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4079"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:32:17","slug":"melchior-kaeppel-hearing-health-thought-differently","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/event\/melchior-kaeppel-hearing-health-thought-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Melchior K\u00e4ppel: Hearing Health Thought Differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people around the world are living with hearing loss. Yet it is often stigmatized, undiagnosed, or ignored. Even though our hearing ability has a profound impact on communication, mental health, and quality of life, many people delay or avoid using well established hearing aids due to cost, accessibility, and social barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is expanding into the health space following the goal of democratizing health and giving users a better overall understanding of their own well-being. Hearing Health is part of this broader vision, where Apple is taking a different approach compared to traditional, well-established hearing solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will share insights from an internship in Apple\u2019s Acoustics Hearing Health Team in Cupertino, California. How do research, engineering, interdisciplinary collaboration, and user-centered design come together and end up in products millions of people use every day? How does Apple drive innovation in acoustics and other fields? And why is Apple so successful? Beyond a technical perspective, the talk will reflect on Apple\u2019s work culture, experiences as an intern and the daily life in the Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lists.rwth-aachen.de\/postorius\/lists\/akustik-kolloquium.lists.rwth-aachen.de\">Melden Sie sich hier an um Einladungen zu den Kolloquium-Vortr\u00e4gen per E-Mail zu erhalten.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lists.rwth-aachen.de\/postorius\/lists\/akustik-kolloquium.lists.rwth-aachen.de\">Register here to receive the invitations to colloquium talks via e-mail.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zoom-Meeting-ID: <a href=\"https:\/\/rwth.zoom-x.de\/j\/64373848607?pwd=BlgF1uzbmHahX9FQReqaiPqwYi3Fam.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">643 7384 8607<\/a><br \/>\nPasswort: 2020000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people around the world are living with hearing loss. Yet it is often stigmatized, undiagnosed, or ignored. Even though our hearing ability has a profound impact on communication, mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[79],"class_list":["post-4079","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-vortrag-praxissemester","cat_vortrag-praxissemester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4079\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}