In the just published brochure “BMBF Project Gallery 2021”, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research presents interesting research projects in the field of interactive technologies for health and quality of life that have been newly launched in 2021, starting with the A2I project on page 2.
The brochure (in German language) is available online at https://www.interaktive-technologien.de/service/publikationen/projektgalerie-2021.
Our team has created a short video with a presentation of the project A2I and the current state of the work for the Project Gallery 2021 of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The video is now online on Youtube.
The first of our data collection campaigns started in Oldenburg a few weeks ago. In measurement sessions of four hours each, subjects go through several conditions of different audiological complexity and movement requirements. Meanwhile, physiological data such as electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocardiography (ECG) as well as behavioural data regarding attention and listening fatigue are recorded. The multimodal data that is collected during this study will later be used to train the AI algorithms.
After many months in which the meetings of the partners could only take place online, a hybrid project meeting was held for the first time on 29 April 2022 at the Advanced Bionics premises in Hanover. Some participants were on site and others were connected online. The status of the recording studies as well as the plans for the demonstrators and studies in the use cases audiology, cardiology and occupational medicine were discussed.
On 3 and 4 November 2022, the A2I project partners met at Hörzentrum Oldenburg to discuss the status of the project and agree on the next steps for the coming months. This time, the main topics were the app development and the planning of the evaluation studies of the project.
Incidentally, the photo above does not show the demonstrator developed by the project. The partners are confident that they will be able to realise a smaller form factor.