Effect of simulated hearing loss on automatic speech recognition for an android robot-patient.

The importance of simulating patient behavior for medical assessment training has grown in recent decades due to the increasing variety of simulation tools, including standardized/simulated patients, humanoid and android robot-patients. Yet, there is still a need for improvement of current android robot-patients to accurately simulate patient behavior, among which taking into account their hearing loss is of particular importance. This paper is the first to consider hearing loss simulation in an android robot-patient and its results provide valuable insights for future developments.

Connected Hearing Devices and Audiologists: The User-Centered Development of Digital Service Innovations.

Today, medical technology manufacturers enter the service market through the development of digital service innovations. In the field of audiology, these developments increasingly shift the service capacities from audiologists to manufacturers and technical systems. However, the technology-driven developments of manufacturers lack acceptance of hearing device users and undermine the important role of audiologists within the service provision.