The Technical Program Committee plans to organize sessions related to the topics listed below. These sessions will be highlighted in the conference program either by invited talks and/or by selecting contributed abstracts as oral presentations.

Planned session topics

• New Approaches to Hearing-Aid Fitting and Service Delivery
• New Approaches to Aided Outcome Assessment
• Outcome Measures Reflecting Real-Life Listening
• Machine-Learning Applications for Hearing Aids
• Signal-Processing Algorithms for Hearing Aids
• Statistical and Computational Approaches to Aided Outcome Prediction
• Health-Psychology Applications for Hearing Aids
• Epidemiological and Intervention Studies Related to Hearing Aids

Planned special session

• Sig Soli Memorial Session
• Open-Source Audio-Processing Tools for Hearing-Aid Research