New app lets cochlear implant users Fine-Tune hearing from home
NCT ID NCT07077070
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested a new mobile app feature that helps cochlear implant users measure how loud different sounds feel. Twenty adults with cochlear implants used the app at home and in the clinic. The goal was to see if the app could collect accurate loudness data, which could make future device programming easier and more convenient.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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20 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Finished
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Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * At least three months of experience with the cochlear implant. * Implanted with the CI600 series (CI612, CI622, CI632) or CI500 series (CI512, CI522, CI532) cochlear implant. * Able to be programmed with ACE (Advanced Combination Encoder), a fixed pulse width (PW) MAP with a maximum PW of 50 us per channel and with ≥ 18 enabled channels on the sound processor MAP. * Fluent speaker in the language used to conduct the study procedures, as determined by the investigator. * Willing and able to provide written informed consent and to comply with all requirements of the protocol. Exclusion Criteria: * Participants programmed with an acoustic component in the tested ear. * Additional health factors, known to the investigator, that would prevent or restrict participation in the evaluations, including significant visual impairment and/or dexterity issues. * Unable or unwilling to comply with the requirements of the clinical investigation as determined by the investigator. * Investigator site personnel directly affiliated with this study and/or their immediate families; immediate family is defined as a spouse, parent, child, or sibling. * Cochlear employees or employees of Contract Research Organizations or contractors engaged by Cochlear for the purposes of this investigation. * Current participation, or participation in another interventional clinical study/trial in the past 30 days, involving an investigational drug or device (unless Cochlear sponsored and determined by investigator or Sponsor to not impact this investigation).
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Cochlear Denver Research Centre
Lone Tree, Colorado, 80124, United States
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Cochlear Technology Centre Belgium
Mechelen, Mechelen, B-2800, Belgium
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European Institute for Otorhinolaryngology (EIORL), ENT Department, Sint-Augustinus Antwerp
Antwerp, 2610, Belgium
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