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Preliminary Program 2013

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

9.00 – 9.30	Welcome, Introduction (J. Kießling, B. Edwards, B. Kollmeier)
9.30	Thomas Lunner (DK-Eriksholm & S-Linköping University): Cognitive-driven hearing aids
10.15	Discussion
10.30	Coffee break
11.00	Rainer Martin (D-Bochum): Noise reduction for hearing devices
11.45	Volker Hohmann (D-Oldenburg): Binaural Hearing aids: The story behind the German president´s award for technology and innovation 2012
12.30	Discussion
13.00	Lunch break
14.00 - 17.10	Discussion sessions (see below)
15.15 - 15.45	Coffee break
17.15	Plenary discussion
18.15	Evening event

Discussion sessions - Thursday afternoon

1) Loudspeaker-based virtual environments for testing hearing aid outcomes
Chair: Karolina Smeds (S-Stockholm), Co-Chair: Inga Holube (Jade-Hochschule, Oldenburg) (Summary)

14.00 Inga Holube (D-Oldenburg): Hearing in everyday environments - necessary benefits and outcome measures

14.15 Pauli Minnaar (DK-Copenhagen): Creating realistic sound scenes in the laboratory, for testing hearing aids with hearing-impaired listeners

14.35 Jörg Buchholz (AUS-Sydney): Realization and application of virtual sound environments for testing real-life benefit

15.00 General discussion, Part I

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee Break

15.45 Giso Grimm (D-Oldenburg): Bringing real life into the lab - applications of spatial audio reproduction in the context of hearing aid research

16.05 Ville Pulkki (FIN-Aalto): Applications of time-frequency-domain parametric spatial audio processing in audiology and in aided hearing

16.25 Karolina Smeds (S-Stockholm): Outcome measures at realistic SNRs

16.40 General discussion, Part II

17.10 End of session

2) Connection between hearing aids and other hearing devices (cochlea implants/EAS as well as consumer electronics) (Summary)

Chair: Deniz Baskent (NL-Groningen), co-chair: V. Hamacher (D-Hannover)

14.00 Andreas Büchner (D- Hannover): Signal-processing adjustments for optimal bimodal hearing with CIs and HAs

14.20 Deniz Baskent (NL-Groningen): Listening effort in EAS

14.40 Lucas Mens (NL-Nijmegen): A hearing aid that follows the dynamic behavior of the cochlear implant: bigger bimodal benefit?

15.00 General discussion, Part I

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee Break

15.45 Jill Firszt (US-St. Louis, Washington University): Using a Hearing Aid and a Cochlear Implant for Bilateral Input: Results in Individuals with Asymmetric Hearing Loss

16.05 Maarten de Vos (D-Oldenburg): Towards a fully mobile auditory brain-computer interface

16.25 Michael Tangermann (D-TU Berlin): Brain Computer Interface Concepts and Application Potential in Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants

16.45 General discussion, Part II

17.10 End of session

3) Inter-individual variability (both on the peripheral processing and cognitive level), brain functioning (including ageing, brain imaging) and its connection to model-based hearing aids (Summary)

Chair: J. Kießling (D-Gießen), Co-Chair: Thomas Lunner (S-Linköping)

14.00 Thomas Lunner (S-Linköping): Motivation for and introduction into the topic (brief informal intro)

14.20 Hartmut Meister (D-Cologne): Beyond hearing - sensory, cognitive and fine motor abilities relevant with amplification

14.40 Mary Rudner (S-Linköping): The ability to memorize heard speech and what it can tell us about hearing aids

15.00 General discussion, Part I

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee Break

15.45 Tobias Neher (D-Oldenburg): Perceptual consequences of binaural noise reduction: Effects of hearing loss and cognitive function

16.05 Jürgen Kießling (D-Gießen): Are hearing aid preferences affected by the users´ technology competencies?

16.25 Sabine Haumann (D-Hannover): Prediction of success with cochlear implants using neural networks

16.45 General discussion, Part II

17.10 End of session

Friday, June 14th, 2013

9.00 - 9.45	Ray Meddis (UK-Essex): Smartphones meet hearing aids
9.45 - 10.00	Coffee Break
10.00 - 13.00	Discussion sessions (see below)
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 and consortial

Discussion sessions - Friday morning

4) The effect of hearing loss and hearing aid technology on the music experience (summary)
Chair: B. Edwards, Co-Chair: Kelly Fitz

10.00 Brent Edwards (Starkey, US-Berkeley) Introduction

10.20 Kelly Fitz (Starkey, US-Berkeley): Issues and non-issues in hearing aids for music listening

10.40 Neil S. Hockley (Bernafon, CH-Bern): Modifications to the hearing instrument front end to accommodate the dynamic range of live music

11.00 General discussion, Part I

11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break

11.45 Anders Jessen (Widex) Input dynamics differences between speech and music

12.05 Gunter Kreutz (D-Oldenburg) “Hearing problems in professional musicians: an epidemiological approach"

12.25 General discussion, Part II

12.55 End of session

5) Binaural and spatial signal processing/computational auditory scene analysis (Summary)
Chairs: B.Kollmeier, V. Hohmann, T. Niederdränk (Recipients of the German presidents award for technology and innovation 2012)

10.00 Volker Kühnel (CH-Stäfa): Binaural links and binaural hearing aid technology as viewed from the industry

10.15 Henning Puder (D-Erlangen): Optimized directional microphones and integrated noise reduction by using high-resolution linear phase filter banks

10.30 Heiner Löllmann (D-Erlangen): ICA-based binaural signal extraction

10.45 Simon Doclo, Daniel Marquardt (D-Oldenburg): Spatial cue preservation for binaural noise reduction

11.00 General discussion, Part I

11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break

11.45 Stefan Fredelake (D-Hannover): Binaural spatial processing for CI

12.00 Jon Barker (UK-Sheffield): From CASA to an ‘acoustic scene simplifier'

12.15 Emmanuel Vincent (F-Nancy): Leveraging online sound exposure and big data

12.30 General discussion, Part II

12.55 End of session

6) Tools to separate patients with same audiogram, but different other auditory functions (Summary)