Loudness is a fundamental dimension of auditory perception. When hearing impairment
results in a loudness deficit, hearing aids are typically prescribed to compensate for this …

A major goal of hearing-device provision is to improve communication in daily life. However,
there is still a large gap between the user's daily-life aided listening experience and hearing …

The Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project aims to provide a new clinical profiling tool—
a test battery—for hearing loss characterization. Although the loss of sensitivity can be …

Data for monitoring individual hearing aid usage has historically been limited to
retrospective questionnaires or data logged intrinsically in the hearing aid cumulatively over …

Despite having individual perceptual preferences toward sounds, hearing aid users often
end up with default hearing aid settings that have no contextual awareness. However, the …

For characterizing the complexity of hearing deficits, it is important to consider different
aspects of auditory functioning in addition to the audiogram. For this purpose, extensive test …

Background—The clinical characterization of hearing deficits for hearing-aid fitting purposes
is typically based on the pure-tone audiogram only. In a previous study, a group of hearing …

Objectives Hearing-aid frequency-gain responses are routinely adjusted by clinicians to
patient preferences and descriptions. This study measured the minimum gain adjustments …

Objective The subjective experiences were assessed of cochlear implant (CI) users either
wearing or not wearing a hearing aid (HA) at the contralateral ear. Design Unilateral CI …

Objective The benefit of using smartphones for hearing tests in a non-supervised, rapid, and
contactless way has drawn a lot of interest, especially if supra-threshold measures are …