Description du projet
Méthodes innovantes pour mesurer l’effort d’écoute et sa valeur
Le bruit excessif sur le lieu de travail a des effets néfastes, tout comme le stress, la fatigue et les problèmes de santé mentale, qui se répercutent ensuite sur la productivité, les congés maladie et les retraites anticipées. Les personnes souffrant de déficiences auditives ou travaillant dans des environnements bruyants font souvent des efforts supplémentaires pour maintenir leurs performances, ce qui peut entraîner une augmentation du stress et de la fatigue. Mais il existe également des résultats positifs associés, tels que l’amélioration des performances professionnelles, l’augmentation du plaisir, de la sécurité et de l’implication sociale. Le projet EASYLI, financé par l’UE, vise à optimiser l’équilibre en développant une nouvelle boîte à outils qui évalue à la fois les efforts consacrés à l’écoute et la valeur qui en découle. EASYLI formera six chercheurs pour élaborer cette boîte à outils, qui utilisera une variété de méthodes, y compris l’analyse de scènes acoustiques en temps réel, l’acoustique virtuelle et les mesures physiologiques et subjectives.
Objectif
Disturbing noise is the most frequent workplace complaint. Noise and high levels of listening difficulty and effort lead to stress and fatigue, which are further linked with mental health problems, productivity loss, increased sick leave and early retirement (annual burden 476-580 billion Euros in Europe).
In demanding or noisy work situations, or for people with impaired hearing, high effort may be needed to maintain performance. This can have adverse consequences such as stress and fatigue. However, applying effort to listening leads to positive consequences as well (good work performance, pleasure, safety, societal participation). In EASILY, our stance is to optimize the ratio between the costs and benefits of effortful listening (listening value) in order to understand and reduce its socioeconomic burden.
As we lack tools to measure listening value, EASYLI will train 6 research fellows to develop and apply an innovative, interdisciplinary toolbox of ambulatory and laboratory measures of listening effort and listening value. They will gain inter-sectoral knowledge, apply real-time acoustic scene analysis, virtual acoustics, and physiological and subjective measures in laboratory and real-life occupational conditions. With this approach, EASYLI aims to detect fatigue early, and examine how individualized interventions (e.g. machine learning-based speech enhancement algorithms, hearing aids) optimize listening value.
EASYLI consists of 5 academic partners and 4 non-academic partners representing hearing-aid and communication systems industries, audiology, and occupational sectors with challenging acoustic environments. The EASYLI doctorate programme will train a new generation of leading entrepreneurial scientists, and will stimulate employment by developing tools that allow early identification and prevention of listening related fatigue and stress.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologycognitive neuroscience
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesacoustics
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineotorhinolaryngology
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN-ID - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks - Industrial DoctoratesCoordinateur
1081 HV Amsterdam
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