Gait stabilizing with hearing device

A method for stabilizing a gait of a user wearing a hearing device, the method comprising:

• sensing an audio signal with a microphone of the hearing device;
• modifying the audio signal with the hearing device into a modified audio signal;
• sensing a movement signal of the user with a movement sensor of the hearing device;
• determining at least one of a step signal indicative of a timing of steps of the user or a sway signal of the user indicative of a sway of the user over time from the movement signal;
• predicting a future step signal from the step signal, the future step signal indicative of at least one of a timing of one or more future steps of the user or a future sway signal from the sway signal, the future sway signal indicative of a sway of the user over a future time;
• triggering a cue signal depending on at least one of the future step signal or the future sway signal, such that the cue signal has a timing to cause the user to initiate a next step to stabilize the gait of the user;
• generating an output cue to be output to the user, the output cue comprising an acoustic cue;
• adding the acoustic cue to the audio signal or the modified audio signal at the timing of the cue signal;
• outputting the modified audio signal with the added acoustic cue with a sound output device of the hearing device to the user, wherein a level of the acoustic cue is set based on a noise level in at least one of the audio signal or the modified audio signal, such that the acoustic cue is imperceptible by the user but a stimulation of the user takes place due to stochastic resonance.