On March 18th and 19th 2021, the kick-off meeting of the “Augmented Auditive Intelligence” (A2I) project took place during the COVID-19 lockdown and thus “under special circumstances”, with participation of all project partners.

In addition to getting to know the project partners, their special competences and interests, the focus of the meeting was on the organization of communication and cooperation in the project and on the detailed planning of all work packages for the first project months. Topics, in particular, were the technical-functional state of the art and requirements analysis pending at the beginning of the project, the planning of a multi-sensor data acquisition study to create a database for the development of mechanical learning techniques, data quality and time synchronization, but also a discussion the concrete use cases that the project will address.

The A2I team met on August 20-21, 2024 on the premises of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel for a final meeting, as the joint project is now coming to an end after 3.5 years. At the meeting, the results of the various work streams (audiology, cardiology, occupational medicine and the empirical work on acceptance factors for radical innovations) were presented and discussed. The partners agreed that the project - despite all the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic - has achieved exciting research results and also generated many ideas for future research for the research institutions involved. However, the work is not yet complete and several scientific publications on the project’s research results are expected in the coming months.