Project C4 - Indication and benefit assessment of hearing devices: Which test conditions do we need?

Project C4 - Indication and benefit assessment of hearing devices: Which test conditions do we need?

Project C4 - Indication and benefit assessment of hearing devices: Which test conditions do we need?

This project aims at providing the scientific basis for the assessment of individual disability due to hearing impairment and relief obtained from hearing devices with optimum ecological validity and sufficient effect size. The measures to be developed will cover communication abilities, social interactions, and participation.

We will characterize the acoustic communication loop of hearing-impaired listeners, provide an evaluation toolbox (outcome measures, methods, acoustic scenes) for assessing authentic unaided and aided performance and preference, and transfer the ICF concept (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, WHO 2001) into a theory-supported, practically manageable concept for rehabilitative audiology.

Publications

2025

  • Roßbach J, Wagener KC, Meyer BT (2025) Multilingual non-intrusive binaural intelligibility prediction based on phone classification. Computer Speech & Language 89: 101684. DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2024.101684

2024

  • Afghah T, Alfakir R, Meis M, Hammady M, Youssif M, Kramer SE, Wagener KC (2024) ICF-Based hearing and functioning assessment: Validation and research outcomes of utilizing the HEAR-COMMAND tool for patients with mild to moderately severe hearing loss and individuals with normal hearing. Front. Rehabil. Sci. 5:1389653. DOI: 10.3389/fresc.2024.1389653
  • Blümer M, Heeren J, Mirkovic B, Latzel M, Gordon C, Crowhen D, Meis M, Wagener K, Schulte M (2024) The impact of hearing aids on listening effort and listening-related fatigue - Investigations in a virtual realistic listening environment.. Trends in Hearing 28: 23312165241265199. DOI: 10.1177/233121652412651
  • Exter M, Jansen T, Hartog L, Oetting D (2024) Development and evaluation of a loudness validation method with natural signals for hearing aid fitting. Trends in Hearing 28, 1-22. [Open access] DOI: 10.1177/23312165241299778
    Preprint available at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.11368769
  • Gerken M, Kirsch C, Schütze J, Ewert SD, Warzybok A (2024) Speech recognition predictions for measured and simulated binaural room impulse responses. Proceedings DAGA 2024 Hannover, 18.-21.03.2024, pp 214-217. https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2024/files/upload/paper/608.pdf
  • Hake R, Kreutz G, Frischen U, Schlender M, Rois-Merz E, Meis M, Wagener KC, Siedenburg K (2024) A survey on hearing health of musicians in professional and amateur orchestras. Trends Hear. 28:23312165241293762. [Open access] DOI: 10.1177/23312165241293762
  • Le Rhun L, Llorach G, Delmas T, Suied C, Arnal LH, Lazard DS (2024) A standardised test to evaluate audio-visual speech intelligibility in French, Heliyon 10, e24750 (12 pages). DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24750

2023

  • Afghah T, Schütze J, Meis M, Kollmeier B, Wagener KC (2023) Conformities and gaps of clinical audiological data with the international classification of functioning disability and health core sets for hearing loss. Int J Audiol. 62: 552-561. DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2022.2078433
  • Heeren J, Hohmann V, Schulte M, Wagener KC (2023) Adaptive CCOLSA: Cognitive overload thresholds in a multi-talker speech test. Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, 11.-15.09.2023, pp 1-6. https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2023/data/articles/000497.pdf
  • Schulte M, Heeren J, Latzel M, Wagener KC (2023) Lab measurements of listening effort and listening-related fatigue: Steps towards higher ecological validity. 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association (Forum Acusticum), Turin, Italy, 11.-15.09.2023, pp 415-420. DOI: 10.61782/fa.2023.0496
  • Schütze J, Ewert SD, Kirsch C, Kollmeier B (2023) Virtual acoustics and audiology: Speech intelligibility in standard spatial configurations and in a living room. 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association (Forum Acusticum), Turin, Italy, 11.-15.09.2023, p. 3383-3387. DOI: 10.61782/fa.2023.1118

2022

  • Afghah T, Alfakir R, Meis M, van Leeuwen L, Kramer SE, Hammady M, Youssif M, Wagener KC (2022) The development of a self-rated ICF-based questionnaire (HEAR-COMMAND Tool) to evaluate hearing, communication, and conversation disability: Multinational experts’ and patients’ perspectives. Front. Rehabilit. Sci. 3:1005525, 15 pages. DOI: 10.3389/fresc.2022.1005525
  • Heeren J, Adiloğlu K, Wagener KC (2022) Self-audiometry via the “Hearpieces”. Proceedings DGA 2022, Erfurt, 9.-12.03.2022, DOI: 10.3205/22dga055, https://www.dga-ev.com/fileadmin/dga2022/233.pdf
  • Heeren J, Nuesse T, Latzel M, Holube I, Hohmann V, Wagener KC, Schulte M (2022) The concurrent OLSA test: a method fo speech recognition in multi-talker situations at fixed SNR. Trends Hear 26: 23312165221108257, 12 pages. DOI: 10.1177/23312165221108257
  • Llorach G, Kirschner F, Grimm G, Zokoll MA, Wagener KC, Hohmann V (2022) Development and evaluation of video recordings for the OLSAmatrix sentence test. Int. J. Audiol. 61(4): 311-321. DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2021.1930205
    Video recordings for the female German Matrix Sentence Test (OLSA) can be found under DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3673062.
  • Schütze J, Ewert SD, Kirsch C, Kollmeier B (2022) Comparison of speech intelligibility in a real and virtual living room. Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics. Gyeongju, Korea, 24.-28.10.2022, ABS-0311 (5 pages). https://www.ica2022korea.org/data/Proceedings_A21.pdf
  • van de Par S, Ewert SD, Hladek L, Kirsch C, Schütze J, Llorca-Bofí J, Grimm G, Hendrikse MME, Kollmeier B, Seeber BU (2022) Auditory-visual scenes for hearing research. Acta Acustica 6:55, 14 pages. DOI: 10.1051/aacus/2022032

2021

2020

  • Heeren J, Schulte M, Latzel M, Wagener K (2020) Der zeitlich komprimierte akustische Tag. 23. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Audiologie, Köln. DOI: 10.3205/20dga146
  • Schütze J, Yadav M, Hendrikse M, Kollmeier B, Wagener K C (2020) A pilot study of
    realistic communication in a simulated restaurant acoustic environment. Proc. DAGA 2020, Berlin, 778 – 781. https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2020/data/articles/000583.pdf

2019

  • Llorach G, Vormann M, Hohmann V, Oetting D, Fitschen C, Meis M, Krueger M, Schulte M (2019) Vehicle noise: loudness ratings, loudness models, and future experiments with audiovisual immersive simulations. In INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings 259(3), 6752-6759. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4276091. Data set available at DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6519277. Videos available at DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3822311
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