HAPPAA workshop: Virtual Reality in Hearing Research and Audiology
12 – 15 June 2022
Recent advances in virtual reality offer opportunities to combine realistic visual scenes with high-fidelity interactive spatial audio for hearing research, hearing aid development and audiological testing. This workshop will cover the topic from creating virtual audiovisual scenes to the latest topics in research in audiovisual scenes.
12 June
17:00 Arrival (possible from 14:00)
Note: You have to get tickets and pay for the ferry yourself and claim it with your reimbursement later.
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:00 – 21:00 Welcome and Poster Session with Get together
Drinks available “on trust account” – to be paid next morning
13 June
8:00 – 8:45 Breakfast
8:45 – 9:45 Invited talk 1: John van Opstal: “Mechanisms involved in auditory pursuit of moving sounds”
9:45 – 10:45 Invited talk 2: Karolina Smeds: “Using real conversations in laboratory testing”
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Invited talk 3: Lauren Hadley: “Understanding conversation behaviour: Theoretical considerations and neglected cognitive processes”
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 18:00 Discussions, Poster Session, Informal Meetings, Leisure, Swimming, Kayaking, Sailing, Ferry to Gstadt or Prien…
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:00 – 20:00 Invited talk 4: Edmund Lalor: “Modeling the human electrophysiological processing of complex auditory and audiovisual environments”
Get together on the island (not organized)
14 June
8:00 – 8:55 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Invited talk 5: Hartmut Meister: “Auditory attention in static and dynamic cocktail party listening”
10:00 – 10:40 Invited talk 6: Maartje Hendikse: “Improving hearing device fitting with virtual reality”
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Invited talk 7: Elke Lange: “Music listening experiences”
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 18:00 Ferry to Herrenchiemsee (leaving 13:15 via Gstadt) incl. guided tour
(from 14:40 h), Note: Please pay for the ferry yourself and claim it with your travel reimbursement later. The guided tour will be paid centrally.
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:00 – 20:00 Invited talk 8: Chris Stecker: “Building a space for auditory experiments in virtual reality”
from 20:00 Final discussion & Poster session & Get together
15 June
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 Final remarks. Formal workshop ends.
10:00 – 10:10 Ferry to Gstadt
10:15 – 10:45 Onward-ferry to Prien
Hiking option with option for lab visit in the late afternoon and dinner/beergarden:
10:50 – 19:30 Bus pickup in Prien for optional hike to Priener Hut (bags can stay in the bus)
(https://www.priener-huette.de/; https://www.bergtour-online.de/bergtouren/huetten/priener-huette/; www.komoot.de/highlight/192493) followed by organized bus-drive to Munich and (optional) lab visit of rtSOFE interactive VR in anechoic chamber in Munich followed by joint dinner/beergarden. Note that this requires an overnight stay in Munich – please arrange.
from 20:00 Joint dinner (PYO) at Georgenhof, Friedrichstrasse 1, 80801 Munich.
“Rainy hike” option:
10:50 – 17:00 Bus pickup in Prien for visit of Orgelzentrum Lampe in Valley:
www.lampl-orgelzentrum.com, the largest collection of organs in the world!
Afterwards organized bus-drive to Munich and (optional) lab visit of rtSOFE followed by joint dinner/beergarden.
Lab visit option without hiking:
11:05 – 13:30 Train to Munich (@11:06, arrive 12:06) and lab visit of rtSOFE interactive VR
in anechoic chamber in Munich, www.aip.ei.tum.de
Location: Seminar Abtei Frauenwörth, the seminar tract of the active Benedictine Cloister at the Fraueninsel (womens island) in the lake Chiemsee, “Frauenchiemsee”, https://www.frauenwoerth.de/
Getting there:
- Car to Prien (rare ferries) or Gstadt (ferry every half hour) and then ferry to Frauenchiemsee
- Train to Prien (e.g. via Munich) and then ferry to Frauenchiemsee; www.brb.de (there are some current issues with www.bahn.de)
1.8 km (22 min) walk or bus or fun-train from train station to ferry station.
Ferry: https://www.chiemsee-schifffahrt.de/en/home/