At Oticon, we go above and beyond the competition in the way we conduct research to prove the life-changing benefits associated with using our technology, such as reduced listening effort, increased memory recall, and reduced listening stress.
At the forefront of clinical research
To prove the incredible benefits of our technology, we test it in dynamic scenarios that recreate real-life listening environments and use innovative research methods to measure the outcome such as EEG testing, pupillometry, VR technology, and pulse monitoring.
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Using VR technology to measure speech comprehension
In traditional listening studies, participants remain motionless during the test. But in real life we move around while we interact with the world.
Using virtual reality technology in the Audio-Visual Immersion Lab (AVIL) lets us capture human behaviour much more realistically. This is important because our technology has sensors that capture how we move and behave, using this information to inform hearing aid processing.
We reconstruct realistic scenarios with simultaneous conversations and background noise. Participants are free to move their heads and bodies to identify and understand one talker amongst others, just as they would in real life.
In studies like these, listening to speech is designed to be very challenging. We want to investigate if our BrainHearing technology helps users navigate and comprehend speech in this type of environment – and show how much it helps.
