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Please will you post the following to the auditory list: COG-MHEAR Workshop at IEEE EMBC 2022, Glasgow 11-15 July 2022 Don't miss our forthcoming COG-MHEAR Workshop on “Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Multi-Modal, Transformative Hearing Assistive Technologies” being held as part of the 44th Annual International
Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2022, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 11-15 July 2022 (https://embc.embs.org/2022/) Workshop Synopsis: Hearing loss affects at least 1.5 billion people globally and is associated
with poorer health and social outcomes. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates 83% of people who could benefit from hearing aids (HAs) do not use them. Barriers to HA uptake are multifaceted but can include: social stigma; cost; a lack of understanding
of hearing loss interventions; and limitations of current HA technology. Limited research developments in speech enhancement have been implemented into commercially available HAs. However, even sophisticated aids remain ineffective in very noisy environments
where human performance is known to be dependent upon input from both the aural and visual senses.
This interdisciplinary workshop will be facilitated by leading academic and industry experts who will showcase a hands-on demonstration of a first of its kind real-time, multi-modal speech enhancement
prototype that can exploit lip reading cues to effectively enhance speech in real noisy environments. The workshop will serve to stimulate discussions on current trends, future research and innovation, clinical evaluation and commercialisation challenges and
opportunities to transform the current HA landscape. The prototype demonstrator will be made freely available as an open testbed for further research, evaluation and benchmarking by participants, who will also benefit from interdisciplinary networking and
collaboration opportunities. Registration process: You can register for our Workshop (number 29) via the EMBC link: https://embc.embs.org/2022/pricing/ Once you click on the above link, you will see the register now button. If are only registering for our Workshop, start by choosing ‘workshop only’ in the first screen (from the 'Registration Type' drop-down menu). Select workshop #29 Amir Hussain from the list
of Workshops. If you have already registered to attend EMBC and would like to go back in and add our workshop, you would simply put in your confirmation # and hit Modify to add the workshop. If you need assistance for any reason, please reach out to
EMBCReg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx We hope to see you soon. Best regards Dorothy Dr. Dorothy Hardy Research Fellow and Research Programme Manager COG-MHEAR research programme: Future Hearing Technology Edinburgh Napier University, UK Email:
D.Hardy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Office hours: Mon, Wed, Thur 10.30 – 16.30; Tue 14.00 – 16.30 Best regards Dorothy Dr. Dorothy Hardy Research Fellow and Research Programme Manager COG-MHEAR research programme: Future Hearing Technology Edinburgh Napier University, UK Email: D.Hardy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Office hours: Mon, Wed, Thur 10.30 – 16.30; Tue 14.00 – 16.30
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