Welcome & Introduction H. Dillon, R-P. Derleth, B. Kollmeier

8th International Forum for Hearing Instrument

Developers, Oldenburg/Germany, 2017

What does HADF stand for?

Low-cost, high quality, minimum organization

Bring together top international experts from

hearing instrument system technology in

industry & science

Pre-competitive, open to new developments for

the whole field

Limit to ~ 80 persons, max. 2-4 per company +speakers

Focus on discussions

….and on having fun!

Programme of today

09.00 - 09.30 Welcome, Introduction (H. Dillon, R-P. Derleth, B. Kollmeier)

09.30 Harvey Dillon (NAL, Sydney, Australia): Are good outcomes driven by good

devices, good clinicians, or good clients?

10.15 Discussion

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Marc Rene Schädler (Univ. Oldenburg & Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All):

Model-based prediction for hearing aid outcome

11.45 Walter Karlen (ETH, Health Sciences and Technology): Appropriate design of

of hearing aid apps: Usability and design reflections

12.30 Discussion

13.00 Lunch break

14.00 - 17.10 Discussion sessions:

- Simulating real world environments and behaviour in the laboratory KAS

- Perception of hearing aid delay and sound quality in challenging listening

environments TGO Room 4b

- EEG, physiological signals (EOG,…) and hearing TGO Room 3

15.15 - 15.45 Coffee break

17.15 Plenary discussion

18.15 Evening event

Programme of tomorrow

09.00 - 09.45 Holger Blume (LU Hannover): New perspectives for hearing aid

hardware design

09.45 - 10.00 Coffee Break

10.00 - 13.00 Discussion sessions:

- Open platforms for hearing aid research TGO Room 4b

- Binaural hearing aid fitting, superdirectivity and evaluation KAS

- Borderline patients and the bridge between hearing aids and

cochlear implants TGO 4A

11.30 - 11.45 Coffee Break

13.00 - 13.30 Final Plenary meeting & Roundup

13.30 - 14.15 Lunch Break

14.15 End of meeting

Afternoon Free for small meetings Sponsored by:

Advanced Bionics

Cochlear AG

GNResound, R&D

GNHearing

Oticon medical

Sivantos AG

Starkey Hearing

Technologies

Widex A/S

Audifon

Institutions in the House of Hearing

House of Hearing

Abteilung Medizinische Physik

Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all

Research areas Improving Diagnostics for Better Individualized Treatment

Towards Better Hearing Devices

Basic Research for Assistive Auditory Technology

Highlights from the Cluster of

Excellence Hearing4all

Auditory brain research: animal-human link, crossmodal plasticity, ….

Diagnostic methods: Closed-set multilingual tests in 20 languages, perilymph analysis, inner ear probe, EEG paradigms with CI

Modelling framework: Aided performance prediction, CAFPAs, EAS

(Binaural) advanced hearing devices mixed mode stimulation, True Loudness fitting, hard- & software platforms, CI electrode solutions

Closing the auditory loop: cEEGrid & Smartphone & hearing device

EAS devices & Central auditory implants

27.01.2017

Things not to miss while you are here….

- test the unusual room acoustic!

- visit the auditory garden!

- get your photo on the auditory throne or

at the impossible triangle!

Programme of today

09.00 - 09.30 Welcome, Introduction (H. Dillon, R-P. Derleth, B. Kollmeier)

09.30 Harvey Dillon (NAL, Sydney, Australia): Are good outcomes driven by good

devices, good clinicians, or good clients?

10.15 Discussion

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Marc Rene Schädler (Univ. Oldenburg & Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All):

Model-based prediction for hearing aid outcome

11.45 Walter Karlen (ETH, Health Sciences and Technology): Appropriate design of

hearing aid apps: Usability and design reflections

12.30 Discussion

13.00 Lunch break

14.00 - 17.10 Discussion sessions:

- Simulating real world environments and behaviour in the laboratory KAS

- Perception of hearing aid delay and sound quality in challenging listening

environments TGO Room 4b

- EEG, physiological signals (EOG,…) and hearing TGO Room 3

15.15 - 15.45 Coffee break

17.15 Plenary discussion

18.15 Evening event

EXZELLENZCLUSTER IM

Lets go to NeSSy: Research building of the Cluster of Excellence

Hearing4All and of the research centres Neurosensorik

and Safety Critical Systems

• Small conference Centre (HADF 2015!) • Common Labs: MEG, fMRI, Virtual

Reality, EEG, acoustically shielded Labs & Studios…. & flexible offices

• Space (offices & Labs for 4 (+X) research groups

NeSSy: A house for the interdisciplinary

(neuro)sensory science & systems research

07.06.2017 NeSSy 11

Winner of federal building competition

in 2008

Moving in: Mid- 2014

Completed: 2016

Pecularities:

Acoustical Shielding

Extremely soft Ventilation ( monster)

Shielding against vibrations & magnetic

field

The wolf, the goat, and the cabbage…..

Labs im Nessy

07.06.2017 NeSSy 12

Funktionelle

Kernspin-

Tomographie

(fMRI)

Virtuelle Realität

Magnet-Enzephalo-

graphie (MEG)

Gesture Lab

Skalinka: an evening of SKA!!!

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Highlights from Hearing4all

Auditory brain research: animal-human link, crossmodal plasticity, ….

Diagnostic methods: Closed-set multilingual tests in 16 languages, perilymph analysis, inner ear probe, EEG paradigms with CI

Modelling framework: Aided performance prediction, CAFPAs, EAS

(Binaural) advanced hearing devices mixed mode stimulation, True Loudness fitting, hard- & software platforms, CI electrode solutions

Closing the auditory loop: cEEGrid & Smartphone & hearing device

EAS devices & Central auditory implants

Highlights

Listening effort: Evaluation in the lab

and daily life

New outcome tools addressing

auditory ecological validity

Highlights

Open Master Hearing Aid (openMHA):

Software platform for development and

evaluation of signal processing

algorithms – now Open Source!

TASCARpro. Toolbox for acoustic

scene creation and rendering

Space-aware hearing aid: automatic

beamforming based on DOA

(implemented in MHA)

Highlights

Voice control and acoustic event

detection for industrial applications:

Acoustic speech, event and scene

classification

Better speech intelligibility on the

phone: Individualized technology for

more enhanced listening comfort

Highlights

Founded in 2016

Services for medical device

manufacturers

Clinical user-centered design with

medical professionals

Highlights

Acoustic signal processing algorithms

for noise reduction and dereverberation

mobile EEG: Recording brain activity in

everyday situations