Preliminary Program 2017

Optional pre-meeting session in the House of Hearing: Company Showcase & Barbecue 2017.

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 - Perception of hearing aid delay and sound quality in challenging listening environments - EEG, physiological signals (EOG,…) and hearing
15.15 - 15.45	Coffee break
17.15	Plenary discussion
18.15	Evening event

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 - Binaural hearing aid fitting, superdirectivity and evaluation - Borderline patients and the bridge between hearing aids and cochlear implants
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 (one session from each of the three areas is 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

visitors: 19457