Hearing prosthesis efficacy altering and/or forecasting techniques
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorSean Lineaweaver
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Abstract
A method of forecasting subjective efficacy of a hearing prosthesis implanted in a recipient, including subjecting a recipient to a plurality of temporally spaced aural training tasks, the aural training tasks evoking hearing percepts with the hearing prosthesis, obtaining first data indicative of the recipient's ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis based on performance by the recipient of the temporally spaced aural training tasks, and forecasting second data based on the first data, wherein the second data are indicative of the recipient's ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis at one or more temporal locations in the future.
Claims17
A non-transitory computer-readable media having recorded thereon, a computer program for executing at least a portion of a method of evaluating subjective efficacy of a hearing prosthesis implanted in a recipient, the computer program including:
- code for obtaining first data indicative of the recipient's ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis based on empirical data of performance by the recipient of temporally spaced aural tests that evoked a hearing percept with the hearing prosthesis;
- code for obtaining a function based on the first data;
- and
- code for obtaining second data indicative of the subjective efficacy of the hearing prosthesis based on the function, wherein
- the empirical data of performance is linked to training type data.
A method of altering a recipient's ability to hear with a hearing prosthesis implanted in a recipient, comprising:
- subjecting a recipient who has participated in a plurality of respective temporally spaced aural training tasks to a plurality of respective temporally spaced aural tests, the respective aural tests evoking hearing percepts evoked by the hearing prosthesis;
- and
- influencing the recipient's commitment to performing subsequent aural training tasks based on first data relating to the aural tests, wherein
- the action of influencing the recipient's commitment includes presenting second data to the recipient, the second data being indicative of negative and/or positive repercussions to the recipient and being based on the first data.
A system for managing the subjective efficacy of a hearing prosthesis, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- an input/output device configured to receive input indicative of the recipient's ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis, wherein
- the processor is configured to develop performance data based on the received input indicative of the recipient's ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis,
- the processor is configured to develop hypothetical efficacy data indicative of a subjective hypothetical efficacy of the hearing prosthesis based on the developed performance data, and
- at least one of:
- (i) the processor is configured to develop hypothetical efficacy data indicative of the subjective hypothetical efficacy of the hearing prosthesis based on data relating to a qualitative feature and/or a quantitative feature of hypothetical aural tasks accomplished by the recipient;
- or
- (ii) the system is configured to link data pertaining to aural training tasks undertaken by the recipient to respective aural tests of the plurality of aural tests provided to the recipient, and the processor is configured to develop the performance data based on the linked data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.