Abstract
In clinical studies relating a patient’s perception in noise, it is interesting to note that the hearing industry has used exclusively the Directivity Index as an objective performance benchmark for the hearing aid. Considering, for example, that a dipole directional pattern has the same DI as a cardioid pattern, it is reasonable to require that additional directional performance benchmarks be reported in these clinical studies, along with the room acoustics parameters related to noise/source positions and the relationship between direct and reverberant fields. The purpose of this study is to describe an automated 3‐D scanning system for benchmarking directional performance, and to review the traditional repertoire of directional benchmarking that has been used in the broader engineering acoustics community; namely, the null angle, maximum response angle, random energy efficiency, front to total random energy ratio, distance factor, and omni to directional array gain. Lastly, visualization of 3‐D polar responses will be explored.
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