Cognitive benefit measure related to hearing-assistance device use

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing system comprising one or more electronic computing devices, data from a hearing-assistance device;

determining, by the computing system, based on the data received from the hearing-assistance device, an amount of time that a wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation;

determining, by the computing system, based on the amount of time that the wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation, a wellness measure for the wearer of the hearing-assistance device; and

outputting, by the computing system, an indication of the wellness measure.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the method further comprises determining, by the computing system, based on the data received from the hearing-assistance device, a body measure for the wearer of the hearing-assistance device, the body measure being an indication of physical activity in which the wearer of the hearing-assistance device engaged while wearing the hearing-assistance device; and

determining the wellness measure comprises determining, by the computing system, the wellness measure based on the body measure and the amount of time that the wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the method further comprises determining, by the computing system, a plurality of sub-components, the plurality of sub-components including the amount of time that the wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation and one or more of:

an audibility sub-component that indicates a measure of an improvement in audibility provided to the wearer by the hearing-assistance device,

an intelligibility sub-component that indicates a measure of an improvement in speech understanding provided by the hearing-assistance device,

a comfort sub-component that indicates a measure of noise reduction provided by the hearing-assistance device,

a focus sub-component that indicates a measure of time the hearing-assistance device spends in directional processing modes, each of the respective directional processing modes selectively attenuating off-axis, unwanted sounds, or

a connectivity sub-component that indicates a measure of an amount of time the hearing-assistance device spent streaming media from devices connected wirelessly to the hearing-assistance device, and

determining the wellness measure comprises determining, by the computing system, the wellness measure based on one or more of the plurality of sub-components.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising outputting, by the computing system, a user interface that indicates values for the plurality of sub-components.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein:

the method further comprises determining a cognitive benefit measure based on the plurality of sub-components, wherein the cognitive benefit measure is an indication of a cognitive benefit of the wearer of the hearing-assistance device attributable to use of the hearing-assistance device by the wearer of the hearing-assistance device,

determining the wellness measure comprises determining, by the computing system, the wellness measure based on the cognitive benefit measure.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, by the computing system, an indication of user input to access a cognitive benefit section of a graphical user interface (GUI) of a software application running on the computing system; and

in response to receiving the indication of user input, sending, by the computing system, a request to the hearing-assistance device,

wherein the computing system receives the data from the hearing-assistance device in response to the request.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wellness measure for the wearer of the hearing-assistance device is an indication of an overall wellness of the wearer of the hearing-assistance device.

8. A computing system comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive data from a hearing-assistance device; and

one or more processors implemented in circuitry, the one or more processors configured to:

determine, based on the data received from the hearing-assistance device, an amount of time that a wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation;

determine, based on the amount of time that the wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation, a wellness measure for the wearer of the hearing-assistance device; and

output an indication of the wellness measure.

9. The computing system of claim 8 , wherein:

the one or more processors are further configured to determine, based on the data received from the hearing-assistance device, a body measure for the wearer of the hearing-assistance device, the body measure being an indication of physical activity in which the wearer of the hearing-assistance device engaged while wearing the hearing-assistance device; and

the one or more processors are configured to determine the wellness measure based on the body measure and the amount of time that the wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation.

10. The computing system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to determine a plurality of sub-components, the plurality of sub-components including the amount of time that the wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation and one or more of:

an audibility sub-component that indicates a measure of an improvement in audibility provided to the wearer by the hearing-assistance device,

an intelligibility sub-component that indicates a measure of an improvement in speech understanding provided by the hearing-assistance device,

a comfort sub-component that indicates a measure of noise reduction provided by the hearing-assistance device,

a focus sub-component that indicates a measure of time the hearing-assistance device spends in directional processing modes, each of the respective directional processing modes selectively attenuating off-axis, unwanted sounds, or

a connectivity sub-component that indicates a measure of an amount of time the hearing-assistance device spent streaming media from devices connected wirelessly to the hearing-assistance device, and

the one or more processors are configured to determine the wellness measure based on one or more of the plurality of sub-components.

11. The computing system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to output a user interface that indicates values for the plurality of sub-components.

12. The computing system of claim 10 ,

the one or more processors are configured to determine a cognitive benefit measure based on the plurality of sub-components, wherein the cognitive benefit measure is an indication of a cognitive benefit of the wearer of the hearing-assistance device attributable to use of the hearing-assistance device by the wearer of the hearing-assistance device, and

the one or more processors are configured to determine the wellness measure based on the cognitive benefit measure.

13. The computing system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

receive an indication of user input to access a cognitive benefit section of a graphical user interface (GUI) of a software application running on the computing system; and

in response to receiving the indication of user input, send a request to the hearing-assistance device,

wherein the computing system receives the data from the hearing-assistance device in response to the request.

14. The computing system of claim 8 , wherein the wellness measure for the wearer of the hearing-assistance device is an indication of an overall wellness of the wearer of the hearing-assistance device.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a computing system to:

receive data from a hearing-assistance device;

determine, based on the data received from the hearing-assistance device, an amount of time that a wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation;

determine, based on the amount of time that the wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation, a wellness measure for the wearer of the hearing-assistance device; and

output an indication of the wellness measure.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein:

execution of the instructions further causes the computing system to determine, based on the data received from the hearing-assistance device, a body measure for the wearer of the hearing-assistance device, the body measure being an indication of physical activity in which the wearer of the hearing-assistance device engaged while wearing the hearing-assistance device; and

execution of the instructions causes the computing system to determine the wellness measure based on the body measure and the amount of time that the wearer of the hearing-assistance device spends in conversation.