Track Your Tinnitus

Project Description

Tinnitus is defined as an auditory perception in the absence of any physical source. Almost everyone will experience some form of tinnitus at least once in the lifetime and in most of the cases this sensation disappears within seconds or minutes. However, in approximately 10% of the population the tinnitus persists for more than six months and can remain chronic for the rest of the life.

Even in the chronic case, the perception of the tinnitus can vary during the day and between days being sometimes more and sometimes less perceivable. The variation can depend on many factors including environmental noise, the daily activity, stressful life events, time of the day and much more. Many people have a good feeling of their tinnitus variation and can reconstruct it from memory to some extent - but how was the timeline of the variation exactly? Until recently it was not possible to systematically track the tinnitus perception over several weeks.

With this research project we want to offer a method to track the individual tinnitus perception with a smart phone application. Using the website in conjunction with your phone you can systematically track the variation of your tinnitus and find out how it is associated with your daily routine and activities. Your answers will also help us learn to more about the daily variation of the tinnitus perception, its causes and effects.

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Project Team

Ulm University
Opens internal link in current windowDr. Rüdiger Pryss
Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
Opens internal link in current windowJohannes Schobel
Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
Opens internal link in current windowMarc Schickler
Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
Opens internal link in current windowAlexander Bachmeier
Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
Jochen Herrmann
Aliyar Aras
Robin Zöller
Robin Kraft
Opens internal link in current windowDr. Thomas Probst
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Opens internal link in current windowProf. Dr. Manfred Reichert
Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
University of Regensburg
Opens external link in new windowDr. Winfried Schlee
University of Regensburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Susanne Staudinger
University of Regensburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Opens external link in new windowProf. Dr. Berthold Langguth
University of Regensburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Opens external link in new windowTommy Hielscher
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Department of Technical and Business Information Systems
Opens external link in new windowProf. Dr. Myra Spiliopoulou
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Department of Technical and Business Information Systems

Project Partners

Track Your Tinnitus was developed by the Tinnitus Research Initiative (TRI) and the Institute of Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) at the University of Ulm.

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Master & Bachelor Theses