Evaluating novel hearing aid technologies for communication in noise: establishing benchmarks and benefit

This project has two main themes:
The first involves measuring the benefit BiCROS hearing aid users gain from their hearing aids in challenging listening environments. Then, a statistically based qualitative process will be followed to investigate user attitudes towards their hearing aids and what contributes to their successful use. This information will be used to create a questionnaire aimed at measuring user satisfaction towards their hearing aids.
The second theme is focused on ActiveVentTM, a technology used to automatically open and close the venting of a hearing aid, providing access to the benefits of both. We intend to conduct testing on the hearing aids fitted with this technology to evaluate their performance using a multitude of measures across different test laboratory scenarios. We will then collect behavioral outcome measures to assess actual user benefit from ActiveVentTM.

Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Scollie;Vijay Parsa;Paula Folkeard

Student:

Partner:

Unitron Hearing

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Retail trade

University:

The University of Western Ontario

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