The project « Noise sensitivity: Systematic review of the concept and psychometric evaluation of its measurement » has completed its third year. It is a three-way cooperation between Catherine Marquis-Favre (ENTPE, Lyon), Wolfgang Ellermeier (TU Darmstadt) and Karin Zimmer (Universität Vechta). The project is funded by Fondation pour l’Audition (FPA), a French foundation to promote research on hearing and hearing impairment. Our project (No. FPA RD 2022-6) started in May 2023 and is being funded until April 2026. Eunsung Song, M.S. (Architectural Civil Engineering) is the doctoral student working on the project at ENTPE.

The project investigates the concept of individual noise sensitivity by (a) analyzing the research literature through a systematic review, (b) conducting multilingual online surveys on noise sensitivity and related concepts, and (c) designing experiments to identify psychophysiological correlates of noise sensitivity.

The project greatly benefits from international cooperation: Sang Hee Park, Ph.D., from the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) in Goyang, South Korea, has joined the project in 2023. Volodymyr Bogdanov from the University of Bordeaux, France, helped set up and analyze the psychophysiological experiment constituting the last milestone of our project.

Initial results have been presented at these conferences:

• Marquis-Favre, C., Ellermeier, W., Zimmer, K., Song, E., Park, S.H. (2024). Noise sensitivity: from systematic review to improving its measurement. In Proceedings of INTER-NOISE 24. Nantes, France (August 25-29).
• Song, E., Zimmer, K., Marquis-Favre, C., Ellermeier, W., Park, S.H. (2024). Noise sensitivity: a systematic review of available instruments. In Proceedings of INTER-NOISE 24. Nantes, France (August 25-29).

• Zimmer, K., Song, E., Ellermeier, W., Marquis-Favre, C. & Park, S.H. (2024). Noise sensitivity: Strategies for a systematic review. In Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Hyperacusis and Misophonia, Warsaw, Poland (September 15-17).

• Ellermeier, W., Zimmer, K., Song, E., Marquis-Favre, C. & Park, S.H. (2025). Assessing hyperacusis via questionnaire: Results from a large (N > 200) German-language online survey. In Proceedings of the Joint DAS/DAGA Meeting on Acoustics, Copenhagen, Denmark (March 17-20). https://doi.org/10.71568/dasdaga2025.056
• Song, E., Ellermeier, W., Marquis-Favre, C., Zimmer, K., Park, S.H. & Strebel, R. (2025). Measuring human noise-sensitivity: Psychometric evaluation in an online survey. Paper presented at Forum Acusticum / Euronoise, Malaga, Spain (June 23-26).
• C. Marquis-Favre, Song, E., Ellermeier, W., C., Zimmer, K., Park, S.H. (2026). `Measurement of noise sensitivity as a case study' in the symposium “Standardising Non Acoustic Factors in Noise Research: Measurement, Future Directions and Implications for Policymakers, Practitioners and Communities”, 15th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, June 14-18, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Song E., Marquis-Favre C., Zimmer K., Ellermeier W., Park S.H. (2026). Noise-sensitivity measure: from a systematic review to empirical studies. Paper invited for presentation at the Europe-Korea Conference on Science and Technology (EKC-2026), July 20-23, Toulouse, France.

• Ellermeier, W., Zimmer, K., Song, E., Marquis-Favre, C. & Park, S.H. (2026). On the relationship between hyperacusis and noise sensitivity. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Hyperacusis and Misophonia (ICHM8), October 14-16, Hanover, Germany.
• Zimmer K., Ellermeier W., Song E., Marquis-Favre C. & Park S.H. (2026). Cross-language validation of the HIQ and SSSQ hyperacusis questionnaires in French, German, and Korean non-clinical adult samples. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Hyperacusis and Misophonia (ICHM8), October 14-16, Hanover, Germany.