EarGenie: Assessment of a Minimum Viable Product

The EarGenie test consists of placing the EarGenie headgear on the infant and running the fNIRS tests via the user interface. Blocks of speech sounds are presented to the infant via earphones or via speaker, and the EarGenie MVP measures changes in the blood oxygenation. Automatic analyses are run to determine whether the infant heard the sounds or discriminated between them. The infant will be in a natural sleep when the fNIRS test is run. Prior to the test, standard audiometric procedures (otoscopy and tympanometry) will confirm normal middle ear function.