Preliminary Program 2015

 

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

15.00 - 18.30 18.30 - .....

Optional pre-meeting session in the House of Hearing: Company showcase Barbecue in the Auditory Garden (please register separately)

 

Thursday, June 4th, 2015

9.00 - 9.30	Welcome, Introduction (R. Bentler, J. Beilin, B. Kollmeier)
9.30	Jaap Haartsen (NL, Inventor of Bluetooth): Enjoying a world without wires
10.15	Discussion
10.30	Coffee break
11.00	Ruth Bentler (U Iowa, USA): Why use human trials in R&D?
11.45	Stephan Ernst (U Oldenburg): The acoustically "transparent" hearing aid (pdf)
12.30	Discussion
13.00	Lunch break
14.00 - 17.10	Discussion sessions: - Smart phones, Hearables and Hearing Aids - Binaural signal processing for hearing devices - Achievements and limitations of model-based hearing aid concepts
15.15 - 15.45	Coffee break
17.15	Plenary discussion
18.15	Evening event

Friday, June 5th, 2015

9.00 - 9.45	Alain de Cheveigne (Paris): A cognitively Controlled Hearing Aid: Why, and how?
9.45 - 10.00	Coffee Break
10.00 - 13.00	Discussion sessions: - Do hearing aids process virtual reality sound well enough? - Objective measurements of signal processing algorithms - Mind and EEG control of hearing aids
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 - Areas

Discussion sessions (one session from each of the three areas to be included in the Thursday afternoon or Friday morning time slot):
 

Area I) Hardware/Acoustics
Area II) Signal processing and algorithms
Area III) Psychoacoustics and fitting