Coordination Funds

在过去的几年里，在理解听觉认知过程和能力方面取得了相当大的进展-从感知，注意力和记忆到复杂的表演，如场景分析和交流。AUDICTIVE旨在显著扩展现实生活场景中与听觉相关的认知表现的知识，并能够创建“听觉认知验证”的VR技术。AUDICTIVE的目标是解决三个研究重点的基础研究：（a）“听觉认知”，（B）“交互式视听虚拟环境”和（c）“质量评估方法”，后者位于（a）和（B）之间的界面。AUDICTIVE的第一阶段主要集中在将听觉认知研究中使用的控制良好但通常不切实际的刺激呈现移植到更全面的虚拟或混合现实环境中。在这里，硬件和软件技术的最新发展得到了反映，视听虚拟和混合现实（VR，MR）达到了高水平的感知能力。第一阶段的结果为第二阶段的AUDICTIVE奠定了基础，第二阶段的目的是确定或（进一步）开发合适的范例，以便在更现实的场景中使用它们，旨在引起接近自然的感知，体验和/或行为。因此，在AUDICTIVE的第二阶段，我们寻求进一步扩展在基础听觉感知和认知研究中开发的知识，理论和模型的科学水平，以更现实的日常生活情况。在这里，将产生新的知识、方法和技术（例如，心理测量和认知评估、QoE评估、生理或行为分析、信号采集和分析、VR/MR技术增强），用于更丰富和更复杂的场景，涉及交互式VR和/或MR技术。该协调项目将促进一种开放的科学方法，以继续开发一个全面的成果数据库。所有项目都包括对VR和/或MR环境的质量进行评估，以研究听觉认知或VR和/或MR环境中听觉认知研究结果的有效性。 所有项目都必须为中央研究数据管理做出贡献。此外，协调项目将通过在不同设施进行循环试验，将区域数据机制付诸实践。在这一点上，一个好的FDM变得可见和明显。因为只有当所有的各个步骤都有很好的记录和可用时，才有可能很好地交流实验，场景和所使用的技术。只有这样，才有可能进行可重复的实验。此外，协调项目将协调一本书的出版，目的是向广大读者传播两个供资期的成果。特约作者和编辑将包括来自声学，心理学，计算机科学等领域的专家。

Considerable progress has been made over the past years in the understanding of auditory cognitive processes and capabilities - from perception, attention and memory to complex performances such as scene analysis and communication. AUDICTIVE aims to significantly extend the knowledge of hearing-related cognitive performances in real-life scenes and to enable creating “auditory-cognition-validated” VR technology. AUDICTIVE targets fundamental research addressing the three research priorities (a) “auditory cognition,” (b) “interactive audiovisual virtual environments,” and (c) “quality evaluation methods,” the latter being located at the interface between (a) and (b). The first phase of AUDICTIVE focussed mostly on porting the well-controlled but often unrealistic stimulus presentations used in auditory cognition research to more comprehensive virtual or mixed reality environments. Here, recent developments in hard- and software technologies were reflected, with audiovisual virtual and mixed reality (VR, MR) reaching a high level of perceptual plausibility. The results of the first phase have laid the foundation for the second phase of AUDICTIVE, which aims to identify or (further) develop suitable paradigms to use them in more realistic scenes, aiming to elicit close-to natural perception, experience, and/or behaviour. Hence, in the second phase of AUDICTIVE, we seek to further expand the scientific level of knowledge, theories, and models that have been developed within basic auditory perception and cognition research to even more realistic daily-life situations. Here, new knowledge, methods, and techniques shall be generated (e.g., psychometric and cognitive assessment, QoE evaluation, physiological or behavioural analysis, signal acquisition and analysis, VR/MR technology enhancement), for richer and more complex scenarios, involving interactive VR and/or MR technology. The coordination project will foster an open science approach, to continue developing a comprehensive database of results. All projects are to include an evaluation of the quality of VR and/or MR environments for research into auditory cognition or of the validity of research results on auditory cognition in VR and/or MR environments. All projects have to contribute to the central research data management. In addition, the coordination project will bring the RDM into practice by conducting a round robin test at different facilities. At this point, a good FDM becomes visible and obvious. Because a good exchange of experiments, scenes and the technique used is only possible if all the various steps are well documented and available. Only in this way are reproducible experiments possible. Furthermore, the coordination project will coordinate a book publication that aims at disseminating the results from both funding periods to a broad audience. Contributing authors and editors will include experts from the fields of acoustics, psychology, computer science, and beyond.