Session Overview: We now know that complex listening situations can have a huge impact on the cognitive resources of people with hearing impairment. New signal processing and noise reduction strategies have proven beneficial to lower the cognitive load of the listeners under these complex situations. Our research activities aim at exploring and building an extra layer of support by investigating the intent of the user in order to maximize the benefit to effort trade-off. We hope to generate new insights on how to enable people with hearing impairment to remain engaged longer during more complex acoustic scenarios. In this presentation you will learn the motivation and approach of our research centre towards user-intent based technologies for hearing devices.

Presenter(s): Alejandro Lopez Valdes

Event: Trans Tasman Conference 2020