Aaron Seitz

Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Enhanced environments for psychophysical evaluation and training

This project seeks to test how gamification and virtual reality can improve validity of speech

in noise tasks in regard to self-report of hearing difficulties.

Specific Aim (s): Aim 1: To determine whether tests in more realistic environments better predict self-reported experience than do standard tests.

Aim 2: To determine whether gamification improves data quality and/or relationship with self-report.

Aim 3: Modeling how individual factors predict how enhanced environments are related to performance and self-report.