Building a Multi-Sensor Lab for Interactive Communication Research: Challenges, Workarounds, and Lessons Learned

Ronny Kurniawan Ibrahim, Kelly Miles, Lisa Maggs, Brooke Luthy, Alan Kan, Michael J. Richardson, Julian Maclaren, Simon Carlile, Zachary M. Smith, Joerg M. Buchholz, ECHO Laboratory, Macquarie University Hearing Research Centre, Performance and Expertise Research Centre, Macquarie University, School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Google Research, Cochlear Limited

Trends in Amplification

Published online on July 21, 2026

Abstract

Trends in Hearing, Volume 30, January-December 2026.
Designing multi-sensor experiments to study interactive communication is costly, complex, and often poorly documented, particularly in terms of implementation challenges and the rationale behind decision-making. Here, we aim to demystify the process by ...