Interacoustics aims to advance audiology through innovation.
The Interacoustics Research Unit (IRU), based at DTU, translates research into practical solutions for hearing care professionals.
IRU collaborates with DTU’s Hearing Systems Group and other experts to keep Interacoustics’ products relevant and effective. By partnering with universities and hearing care professionals, we ensure our solutions meet evolving industry needs.
Access to diverse patient populations allows us to test new methods directly within target groups.
Current and past collaboration partners
We established the Interacoustics Research Unit in 2013 to work on open research projects in the field of technical audiology. IRU’s focus is on applied and clinical projects in audiometry, electrophysiology, hearing aid fitting, and impedance.
– Søren Laugesen, Ph.D., Research Manager at IRU.
For more than a century, hearing aids have mostly been fitted based on hearing threshold data, as measured by the audiogram. Together with their partners, IRU has developed a novel diagnostic test for identifying people’s ability to hear in noise and create a better foundation for their hearing aid fitting.
Besides looking for clinical pains that we can help to solve, we are also monitoring what’s going on in the research world to seek inspiration for new projects. One of the big hot topics is machine learning, which IRU is beginning to investigate , e.g., together with Ph.D. students. You can find one of these projects in the link below.
A core theme for IRU is to improve validations of fittings in infants that are too young for behavioral hearing testing. In collaboration with the University of Manchester, IRU has investigated a new method - the Aided Cortical test - to validate hearing aids in infants that are 3 to 7 months of age.