Snippets
listening situation-induced snippets
Snippets (118 in total) were short pieces of educational content and consisted of written text, videos, pictures, sound fragments, or a combination thereof. An example is shown in Figure 1, pane 7, Supplemental Digital Content 1 (Where possible, listening situation-induced snippets were acoustically tailored to the entered listening situation. For example, when the situation concerned a “small group (2 to 3 persons) conversation” with “a lot of background noise,” a snippet was offered that fitted the activated listening situation labels (1) “conversation, 2 to 3 persons” and (2) “speech-in-noise” (e.g., snippet “Practicing speechreading”). Around 33% of the listening-induced snippets that were offered had no label and thus, were not offered in a tailored fashion but were offered randomly. The fact that some, and not all, offered snippets were linked to the entered listening situations was explained in the app’s introductory screens. Snippets were supposed to promote TB-specific readiness and an overall sense of self-management.Each snippet covered one or more of the nine app themes that structured the app’s library (Figure 1, pane 6, Supplemental Digital Content 1, 