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2024

Influence of hearing aid processing on acoustic features associated with emotional speech perception
Conference: World Congress of Audiology (WCA) 2024, Paris (FR)
Presenter: Frédéric Marmel & Dina Lelic

Understanding empowerment in a clinical hearing loss population
Conference: World Congress of Audiology (WCA) 2024, Paris (FR)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson, Bec Bennett, Paola Incerti, Gitte Engelund, Jason Gavrilis, Mel Ferguson

Development of Empowerment Audiology Questionnaires (EmpAQ)
Conference: World Congress of Audiology (WCA) 2024, Paris (FR)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson, Bec Bennett, Sarah Gotowiec, Paola Incerti, Mel Ferguson

Investigating Two Methods for Comparing Hearing-Aid Settings during Group Conversations
Conference: International Hearing-Aid Research Conference (IHCON) 2024, Lake Tahoe (CA, USA)
Presenter: Petra Herrlin, Frédéric Marmel, Florian Wolters, Karolina Smeds

Evaluating Ecological Validity of Outcomes
Conference: International Hearing-Aid Research Conference (IHCON) 2024, Lake Tahoe (CA, USA)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds, Michael Akeroyd, Louise Hickson, Inga Holube, Gitte Keidser, Graham Naylor
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Third-Party Observations of Group Conversation Success
Conference: International Hearing-Aid Research Conference (IHCON) 2024, Lake Tahoe (CA, USA)
Presenter: Raluca Nicoras, Lauren Hadley, Graham Naylor, Rosa-Linde Fischer, Karolina Smeds

Focusing on Positive Listening Experiences Improves Hearing Aid Outcomes in First-Time Hearing Aid Users: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Conference: International Hearing-Aid Research Conference (IHCON) 2024, Lake Tahoe (CA, USA)
Presenter: 
Dina Lelic, Petra Herrlin, Florian Wolters, Line Nielsen, Ceylan Tuncer, Karolina Smeds

Effective design for experiments on small-group conversation: what matters?
Conference: International Hearing-Aid Research Conference (IHCON) 2024, Lake Tahoe (CA, USA)
Presenter: 
Raluca Nicoras, Bryony Buck, Rosa-Linde Fischer, Matthew Godfrey, Lauren Hadley, Karolina Smeds, Graham Naylor

Linking self-perceived conversation success to communication behaviours in group conversations
Conference: International Hearing-Aid Research Conference (IHCON) 2024, Lake Tahoe (CA, USA)
Presenter: Raluca Nicoras, Rosa-Linde Fischer, Matthew Godfrey, Lauren Hadley, Karolina Smeds, Graham Naylor

Investigating two methods for comparing hearing-aid settings during group conversations
Conference: American Auditory Society (AAS), Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Presenter: Petra Herrlin, Karolina Smeds, Florian Wolters, Frédéric Marmel
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Influence of hearing aid processing on acoustic features associated with emotional speech perception
Conference: International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication  (CHSCOM), Linköping (SE)
Presenter: Frédéric Marmel

2023
LEAP for Group conversations
Conference: Acoustics 2023, Sydney (AUS)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Auditory reality and evaluation of hearing-aid function
Conference: Acoustics 2023, Sydney (AUS)
Presenter: Florian Wolters, Petra Herrlin, Josefina Larsson, Karolina Smeds
LINK: Poster

Empowerment hos personer med hörselnedsättning - skapandet av EmpAQ
Conference: Svensk Audiologisk Konferens, Gothenburg (SE)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson

Recurrence analysis of head movements to explore the influence of hearing loss on group conversation dynamics
Conference: GeSPIN, Nijmegen (NL)
Presenter: Frédéric Marmel, Petra Herrlin, Florian Wolters, Karolina Smeds
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Auditory reality - Impact of hearing status
Conference: International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (ISAAR), Nyborg (DK)
Presenter: Florian Wolters, Petra Herrlin, Karolina Smeds
LINK: Poster

One conversation, two streams? Exploring attentive listening through the just-follow conversation task
Conference: International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (ISAAR), Nyborg (DK)
Presenter: Bill Whitmer, David McShefferty, Karolina Smeds
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Development of Empowerment Audiology Questionnaires (EmpAQ) to measure hearing-related empowerment
Conference: American Auditory Society (AAS), Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Presenter: Melanie Ferguson, Bec Bennett, Sarah Gotowiec, Josefina Larsson

Conceptualizing empowerment for hearing health care
Conference: American Auditory Society (AAS), Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson, Paola Incerti, Keagan Young, Sarah Gotowiec, Melanie Ferguson 
2022
Empowerment ur ett hörselperspektiv
Conference: Onlineforum för pedagoger (SE)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson

Understanding empowerment along the hearing journey
Conference: Vingstedkonference for medarbejdere i hørerehabiliteringen, Vingsted (DK)
Presenter: Sarah Gotowiec

Empowerment along the hearing patient journey: the multifaceted role of participation.
Conference: HEAL Conference, Lake Como (IT)
Presenter: Sarah Gotowiec, Josefina Larsson, Paola Incerti, Teagan Young, Melanie Ferguson
LINK: Poster

Empowerment from the eyes and ears of audiologists
Conference: HEAL Conference, Lake Como (IT)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson, Sarah Gotowiec
LINK: Poster

Development of an outcome measure for empowerment in adults with hearing loss
Conference: HEAL Conference, Lake Como (IT)
Presenter: Melanie Ferguson, Sarah Gotowiec, Josefina Larsson, Paola Incerti, Bec Bennett, David Andrich

Using real (group) in laboratory testing
Conference: Virtual reality in hearing research and audiology, Munich (DE)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Empowerment from the eyes and ears of audiologists

Conference: Nordisk Audiologisk Selskab (NAS), Odense (DK)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson, Sarah Gotowiec
LINK: Poster

Empowerment ur ett hörselperspektiv
Conference: Swedish pedagogical audiological association (SPAF), Gothenburg (SE)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson

Development of an outcome measure for empowerment in adults with hearing loss
Conference: 49th Erlangen Kolloquium, Erlangen (DE)
Presenter: Melanie Ferguson, Sarah Gotowiec, Josefina Larsson, Paola Incerti, Bec Bennett, David Andrich
2021
Patient empowerment along the hearing health journey: implications for patients and clinicians
Conference: Audiology Australia 2021 Conference. Online meeting (AUS)
Presenter: Sarah Gotowiec

Ecological validity and the evaluation of hearing-aid algorithms
Conference: European Federation of Audiology Societes (EFAS). Online meeting (CR)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Vilken hörapparatinställning är egentligen bäst? Olika metoder för att utvärdera hörapparater.
Conference: Svensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF) Online Meeting, Kalmar (SE)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Understanding patient empowerment on the hearing health journey
Conference: TINACT Online Meeting, Lynge (DK)
Presenter: Sarah Gotowiec

2020
Evaluating hearing-aid signal processing in a way that is indicative of real-life performance
Conference: 47th Erlangen Kolloquium, Erlangen (DE)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds 

Selecting laboratory test scenarios
Conference: 12th Speech in Noise Workshop (SpIN), Toulouse (FR) 
Presenter
Karolina Smeds, Florian Wolters, Sarah Gotowiec, Petra Herrlin, Josefina Larsson, Martin Dahlquist
LINK: Poster
2019
LEAP – A new laboratory test for evaluating auditory preference
Conference: International Congress of  Acoustics (ICA), Aachen (DE)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Evaluation of auditory reality and hearing aids using an auditory momentary assessment (EMA) approach
Conference: International Congress of  Acoustics (ICA), Aachen (DE)
Presenter: Niels Søgaard Jensen, Ole Hau, Dina Lelic, Petra Herrlin, Florian Wolters, Karolina Smeds
LINK: Poster

Får det vara lov att vara buller till kaffet? 
Conference: Rikskonferensen för Audionomer, Halmstad (SE)
Presenter: Petra Herrlin

LEAP – A new laboratory test for evaluating auditory preference
Conference: Hearing aids developers' forum (HADF), Oldenburg (DE) 
Presenter: Petra Herrlin

LEAP – Paired Comparisons in the Lab
Conference: International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA), Hongkong (HK)  
Presenter: Karolina Smeds
2018
Paired comparisons of preference for hearing-aid settings measured in the field and in the laboratory – Evaluation of LEAP, a new laboratory test based on the CoSS framework 
Conference: International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON), Lake Tahoe (US) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Ecological Momentary Assessments for Evaluation of Hearing-Aid Preference
ConferenceAcoustical Society of America (ASA), Minneapolis (US)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Hearing aid fitting and its impact on performance
Conference: 12th International Workshop on Advances in Audiology, Salamanca (ES)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds


Real-life hearing performance: Increasing ecological validity of assessment
ConferenceAmerican Academy of Audiology (AAA), Nashville (US)
Presenter: Florian Wolters


Common Sound Scenarios: Ett sätt att strukturera vår ljudliga vardag
ConferenceTeMA Hörsel, Örebro (SE) 
Presenter: Josefina Larsson


Utvärdering av hörapparatinställningar i lyssnarens vardagsliv
ConferenceTeMA Hörsel, Örebro (SE) 
Presenter: Petra Herrlin

Laboratory paired comparisons based on the CoSS framework
ConferenceSpeech in Noise Conference (SPIN), Glasgow (GB)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds, Josefina Larsson, Petra Herrlin,  Florian Wolters, Martin Dahlquist
LINK: Poster
2017
Hearing-instrument feature evaluation in the laboratory and in real life
ConferenceOverHear, London (GB) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds


Hearing-instrument feature evaluation in the laboratory and in real life
ConferenceHearing aids developers forum (HADF), Oldenburg (DE) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds


Common sounds scenarios - A context driven categorization of everyday sound environments for application in hearing-device research 
ConferenceSpeech in Noise Conference (SPIN), Oldenburg (DE)
Presenter
Florian Wolters, Karolina Smeds, Erik Schmidt, Eva Kümmel Christensen, Christian Norup
LINK: Poster
2016
Svagare, men bättre dag för dag? 
ConferenceRikskonferensen för Audionomer, Arvika (SE) 
Presenter: Josefina Larsson/Petra Herrlin

Proprietary hearing-aid gain prescriptions - changes over time
ConferenceInternational Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON), Lake Tahoe (US) 
Presenter
Karolina Smeds, Martin Dahlquist, Carsten Paludan-Müller, Josefina Larsson, Sofia Hertzman, Sara Båsjö 
LINK: Poster

Common Sounds Scenarios - A context driven categorization of everyday sound environments for application in hearing-device research
ConferenceInternational Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON), Lake Tahoe (US)
Presenter
Florian Wolters, Karolina Smeds, Erik Schmidt, Eva Kümmel Christensen, Christian Norup 
LINK: Poster

Preskriptionsmetoder i hörapparater - Teori och praktik
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Sundsvall (SE)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson
2015
Preference judgments in the field and in the laboratory 
ConferenceSpeech in Noise Conference (SPIN), Copenhagen (DK) 
Presenter
Martin Dahlquist, Josefina Larsson, Sofia Hertzman, Florian Wolters, Karolina Smeds
LINK: Poster

Hörapparatpreferens i fält och i laboratorium
ConferenceTeMA Hörsel, Malmö (SE)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson

Common Sound Scenarios
Conference: International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA), Berkeley (US)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds
2014
Hörapparatutprovningar för personer med grava hörselnedsättningar-Bedömning av ljudkvalitet och hörstyrka
ConferenceRikskonferensen för Audionomer, Stockholm (SE) 
Presenter: Sofia Hertzman, Josefina Larsson

Tal och musik: Dynamik och hörapparatförstärkning
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Halmstad (SE)
PresenterKarolina Smeds, Anders Jessen

Hörapparatutprovningar för personer med grava hörselnedsättningar
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Halmstad (SE) 
PresenterJosefina Larsson, Sofia Hertzman, Martin Dahlquist

Realistiska ljud-scenarion
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Halmstad (SE)
PresenterFlorian Wolters
2013
Estimation of realistic signal-to-noise ratios
ConferenceSpeech in Noise Conference (SPIN), Vitoria (ES) 
PresenterKarolina Smeds, Florian Wolters, Martin Rung
LINK: Poster

Hearing-aid fitting today: Achievements and challenges
Conference
ADANO, Kiel (DE) 
Presenter:
Karolina Smeds 

Hörapparatutprovningar för grava hörselnedsättningar- Hur gör vi? Tekniska aspekter
ConferenceRikskonferensen för Audionomer, Luleå (SE)
Presenter:
Josefina Larsson

Ett sätt att visualisera hörapparatförstärkt ljud med hjälp av in-situ audiometri
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Falun (SE)
Presenter:
Karolina Smeds

Impedans i öron och hörapparater - A perfect match? 
Conference: Svensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Falun (SE)
Presenter: Niklas Bergman 

Hörapparatutprovningar för patienter med grav hörselnedsättning - Audionomers erfarenheter 
Conference: Svensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Falun (SE) 
Presenter:
Kristin Andersson

Hörselgångsmätningar (REM): Tekniska utmaningar
Conference: Svensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Falun (SE)
Presenter: Florian Wolters 

Outcome measures at realistic SNRs
ConferenceHearing aids developers forum (HADF), Oldenburg (DE) 
Presenter:
Karolina Smeds 

Estimation of realistic signal-to-noise ratios
ConferenceInternational Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology, Helsingør (DK) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

2012
Predictive measures of the intelligibility of speech processed by noise reduction algorithms
ConferenceSpeech in Noise Conference (SPIN), Cardiff (GB) 
Presenter
Karolina Smeds, Florian Wolters, Arne Leijon, Anders Nilsson, Sara Båsjö, Sofia Hertzman 
LINK: Poster

Taltest för att utvärdera signalbehandling i hörhjälpmedel
ConferenceTeMA Hörsel, Linköping (SE) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Estimation of realistic signal-to-noise ratios 
Conference
International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON), Lake Tahoe (US)
Presenter
Karolina Smeds, Florian Wolters, Martin Rung 
LINK: Poster

Realistiska signal-brus-förhållanden (SNR)
ConferenceTeMA Hörsel, Linköping (SE) 
Presenter: Florian Wolters

RITE hearing aids as one solution for early hearing aid intervention?
ConferenceInterdisciplinary Congress in Paediatric Audiology (BarNAS), Örebro (SE)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson


Hur påverkar det individuella örat den faktiska förstärkningen för hörapparatbäraren?
ConferenceTeMA Hörsel, Linköping (SE)
Presenter: Sofia Hertzman
2011
Sensitive speech tests for realistic listening environments - an oxymoron or just difficult to achieve?
ConferenceInternational Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA), Toronto (CA) 
Presenter
Karolina Smeds 

Predictive measures of the intelligibility of speech processed by noise reduction algorithms
Conference: International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (ISAAR), Nyborg (DK) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Speech in the laboratory and in the field
ConferenceHearing aids developers forum (HADF), Oldenburg (DE) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds


Hörselmätning i högfrekvensområdet
Conference
Svensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Uppsala (SE) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds 

Hörstyrka vid nedsatt hörsel - vad vet man om det? 
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Uppsala (SE) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds


Objective measures to quantify the perceptual effects of noise reduction in hearing aids
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Uppsala (SE) 
Presenter: Florian Wolters
2010
Objective measures to quantify the perceptual effects of noise reduction in hearing aids
ConferenceAudio Engineering Society (AES), Piteå (SE) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Objektiva mått för att beskriva effekten av bullerreduktion
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Eskilstuna (SE) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Predictive measures of the intelligibility of speech processed by noise reduction algorithms
Conference: International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON), Lake Tahoe (US) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Dynamic aspects of noise reduction in hearing aids 
ConferenceSpeech in Noise Conference (SPIN), Amsterdam (NL) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Högfrekvenshörsel 
Conference: Rikskonferensen för Audionomer, Västerås (SE)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson/Sofia Hertzman

2009
Hörapparatförstärkning - Strategi eller slump? 
ConferenceTeMA Hörsel, Jönköping (SE)
Presenter: Josefina Larsson

Noise reduction (NR) in modern hearing aids - Long-term average measurements using speech
ConferenceInternational Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (ISAAR), Nyborg (DK) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Dynamic behavior of certain hearing aid noise reduction systems
ConferenceInternational Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA), Stadland-Seefeldt (DE)
Presenter: Karolina Smeds

Hörapparatförstärkning för svaga ljud
ConferenceTeMA Hörsel, Jönköping (SE) 
Presenter: Sofia Hertzman

Hur fungerar moderna hörapparaters bullerreduktion?
ConferenceTeMA Hörsel, Jönköping (SE) 
Presenter: Karolina Smeds
2008
Kvantifiering av hörapparaters bullerreducering för talliknande signaler
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Hudiksvall (SE)
Presenter
Niklas Bergman 

Använd hörapparatförstärkning hos skolbarn med sensorineural hörselnedsättning på Alviksskolan 
ConferenceSvensk Teknisk Audiologisk Förening (STAF), Hudiksvall (SE)
Presenter
Niklas Bergman