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The First Cadenza Challenges: Using Machine Learning Competitions to Improve Music for Listeners With a Hearing Loss (2025)
Journal Article
Roa-Dabike, G., Akeroyd, M. A., Bannister, S., Barker, J. P., Cox, T. J., Fazenda, B., Firth, J., Graetzer, S., Greasley, A., Vos, R. R., & Whitmer, W. M. (2025). The First Cadenza Challenges: Using Machine Learning Competitions to Improve Music for Listeners With a Hearing Loss. IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 6, 722-734. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJSP.2025.3578299

Listening to music can be an issue for those with a hearing impairment, and hearing aids are not a universal solution. This paper details the first use of an open challenge methodology to improve the audio quality of music for those with hearing loss... Read More about The First Cadenza Challenges: Using Machine Learning Competitions to Improve Music for Listeners With a Hearing Loss.

Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users (2024)
Journal Article
Bannister, S., Greasley, A. E., Cox, T. J., Akeroyd, M. A., Barker, J., Fazenda, B., Firth, J., Graetzer, S. N., Roa Dabike, G., Vos, R. R., & Whitmer, W. M. (2024). Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1310176. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1310176

Introduction: Previous work on audio quality evaluation has demonstrated a developing convergence of the key perceptual attributes underlying judgments of quality, such as timbral, spatial and technical attributes. However, across existing research t... Read More about Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users.

Tinnitus, Suicide, and Suicidal Ideation: A Scoping Review of Primary Research (2023)
Journal Article
MacDonald, C., Caimino, C., Burns-O’Connell, G., Hartley, D., Lockwood, J., Sereda, M., Whitmer, W., Cima, R., Turton, L., & J. Hoare, D. (2023). Tinnitus, Suicide, and Suicidal Ideation: A Scoping Review of Primary Research. Brain Sciences, 13(10), Article 1496. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13101496

Tinnitus (the perception of sound in the absence of any corresponding external source) is highly prevalent and can be distressing. There are unanswered questions about how tinnitus, suicidal thoughts, and suicidal behaviours co-occur and interact. To... Read More about Tinnitus, Suicide, and Suicidal Ideation: A Scoping Review of Primary Research.

Combining Multiple Psychophysiological Measures of Listening Effort: Challenges and Recommendations (2023)
Journal Article
Richter, M., Buhiyan, T., Bramsløw, L., Innes-Brown, H., Fiedler, L., Hadley, L. V., Naylor, G., Saunders, G. H., Wendt, D., Whitmer, W. M., Zekveld, A. A., & Kramer, S. E. (2023). Combining Multiple Psychophysiological Measures of Listening Effort: Challenges and Recommendations. Seminars in Hearing, 44(2), 095-105. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1767669

About one-third of all recently published studies on listening effort have used at least one physiological measure, providing evidence of the popularity of such measures in listening effort research. However, the specific measures employed, as well a... Read More about Combining Multiple Psychophysiological Measures of Listening Effort: Challenges and Recommendations.