Audio Experience Design

We are now on #Bluesky, too 🦋 You can find us here: bsky.app/profile/axdimp…

Nils Marggraf-Turley measured individual HRTFs for the Headphones.com team 🎧 Headphones.com is a well-known audio company and review platform focused on high-quality headphones and objective audio measurements. Watch the YouTube video: youtube.com/watch?v=W9gWIu…

Nils Marggraf-Turley and Lorenzo Picinali at the Royal Society meeting on Vision Augmented Hearing in Manchester 👁️👂 Very interesting meeting on how auditory and visual perception interact, with valuable discussions alongside researchers from academia and industry.

🦻 Spatial auditory change detection in listeners with hearing loss — revealing new insights into spatial awareness and hearing challenges sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🔊 Task difficulty, HRTFs & spatial release from masking — shedding light on how spatial cues help us understand speech in noisy scenes sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Exciting news from the AXD team! 🎉 axdesign.co.uk/news-posts/two… We’ve just published two new papers in Hearing Research exploring how people perceive sound in complex environments:

🎧 @AESorg UK London × Hybrid Lecture Join us for an evening of audio research with three current PhD students. 📅 Wed 10 Dec | 🕕 18:00–20:30 📍 Dyson Library, Imperial College London, SW7 2DB 💻 Online via Zoom, register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📢 We're inviting applications for a funded PhD position on the project "Perceptually-Informed Design and Validation of Spatial Audio for Virtual Acoustics." 🗓 Deadline: 09 January 2026 🔗 Learn more & apply: imperial.ac.uk/design-enginee… #PhD #SpatialAudio

Dr Rapolas Daugintis defended his thesis titled 'Auditory Model-Based Similarity Metric for Head-Related Transfer Functions'. We extend our thanks to his thesis examiners, Christoph Pörschmann and Rebecca Stewart.

Dr Neel Le Penru defended his thesis titled 'On the Spatial and Resilience-Related Features of Natural Soundscapes'. We thank Dan Stowell and Thrish Nanayakkara for acting as thesis examiners.

🎉 Huge congratulations to our team members Rapolas and Neel for successfully passing their PhD vivas over the past couple of weeks! 👇

Greetings from @Cherish_MSCA doctoral network meeting in Leuven 👋

The second paper explores the augmentation of interaural cues in individual HRTFs to improve speech intelligibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.hear…

The first paper investigates the perceptual impact of simplifying geometrical acoustics models for binaural reverberation. doi.org/10.1109/TASLPR…

It’s been a productive few months for our team! We’re excited to share two more recently published works: 🧵👇

Task 2: Upsampling HRTFs from a sparse set of measurements: 🔗 doi.org/10.1109/OJSP.2…

Task 1: Harmonising Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) datasets: 🔗 doi.org/10.1109/OJSP.2…

Last year, we co-organised the first Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge, sponsored by @IEEEsps and @SONICOMproject. Now, we’re excited to share two new publications that present the challenge outcomes! 🧵👇

Imagine walking into a room where your ears can’t be trusted.. That’s what visitors experienced at SONICOM’s Sound Lab at the Great Exhibition Road Festival in June 🎪 Read more 👉bit.ly/4lQDc3G

...and virtual room acoustics.

...head-related transfer functions...

The AXD team had a great time in Málaga last week presenting our work at @FAeuronoise2025, including the @SONICOMproject and @Cherish_MSCA. We enjoyed engaging discussions, fostered old friendships, and made exciting new connections! ☀️