AVATAR: Audio-visual true-to-life assessment of auditory rehabilitation.

This project proposes the development of a new assessment paradigm for realistic evaluation of hearing aid use and functionalities by taking challenging listening conditions and perceptual complexity into account in a quantitative and controlled way. The selected audio-visual scenarios are based on former auditory research on self-report evaluation. This approach will yield a quantitative and controlled framework that will contribute to closing the gap between self-report and the basic in-lab assessments of hearing aids, and that takes into account the complexity of various audio-visual listening environments. This may open new avenues for more realistic assessment of the use and functionality of hearing aids and new sound processing algorithms, and for better individually tuned auditory rehabilitation based on true listening conditions.

Keywords:Hearing aids, Assessment, Auditory Rehabilitation, Hoorapparaten, Evaluatie, Gehoorrevalidatie

Disciplines:Otorhinolaryngology, Speech, language and hearing sciences