News & Publications

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NEW PAPER: Enhancing CI speech in noise using haptics

• ​Fletcher, M.D.,  Hadeedi, A., Goehring, T., & Mills, S.R. (2019) Electro-haptic hearing: Speech-in-noise performance in cochlear implant users is enhanced by tactile stimulation of the wrists (preprint)​​​​

Our new study, trying to improve CI listening using small vibrations

• Fletcher, M.D., Mills, S.R., & Goehring, T. (2018) Vibro-Tactile Enhancement of Speech Intelligibility in Multitalker Noise for Simulated Cochlear Implant Listening, Trends in Hearing (click here for the PDF version)

My research featured in The Conversation

• Playing sound through the skin improves hearing in noisy places, The Conversation, September 2018​​
• Here’s what music sounds like through an auditory implant, The Conversation, February 2019

Our presentation at the British Society of Audiology

• Fletcher, M., Hadeedi, A., Goehring, T., & Mills, S. (2018). Using tactile stimulation to improve speech-in-noise performance in cochlear implant users. British Society of Audiology Basic Auditory Science 2018

Our work, presented at the UK conference on human responses to vibration

• Mills, S. R., & Griffin, M. J. (2018) Discrimination of the Frequency of Vibration Applied to the Finger at Two Acceleration Magnitudes. In 53rd United Kingdom Conference on Human Responses to Vibration, Ascot.
• Mills, S. R., & Griffin, M. J. (2017) The Touch Perception Puzzle: a Basis for Choosing Stimulus Parameters in Vibrotactile Psychophysics, In 52nd United Kingdom Conference on Human Responses to Vibration, Cranfield Defense Academy.
• Mills, S. R., Morioka, M., & Griffin, M. J. (2016). Limitations of vibrotactile thresholds. In 51st United Kingdom Conference on Human Responses to Vibration, Institute of Naval Medicine, Gosport, PO12 2DL, England.