SMART BEAR: Hearing Aid User Profiles from 12-Month Clinical Monitoring

A conceptual framework and planned data collection for profiling hearing aid users within the EU-funded SMART BEAR project. The dataset will be generated from a 12-month continuous monitoring study of hearing loss patients, collecting demographics, audiometric data, cognitive status, habits, and device usage logs. The data is authored by Eleftheria Iliadou and was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Predicting hearing aid satisfaction and long-term usage based on patient demographics and medical history described in the study.
• Identifying patient characteristics correlated with device abandonment using logged hearing aid operation data and clinical assessments.
• Profiling patients for targeted clinical interventions based on combined medical, environmental, and social context data.
• Reducing required remote counseling sessions by modeling factors for optimal hearing aid fitting mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data collection plan includes a 12-month continuous monitoring period for longitudinal analysis.
• Combines multiple data streams: device operation logs, medical assessments, wearables, and patient-reported habits.
• Explicitly designed for use with explainable AI (XAI) techniques to interpret model factors.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for open reuse.

Limitations

• The provided file is a 669.8 KB DOCX document describing a framework, not the actual dataset; data availability is unclear.
• Column-level documentation and sample data are unavailable, making field semantics and structure unknown.
• Row count is unknown, which limits suitability assessment for specific analytical tasks.

Provenance

Source

SMART BEAR project, authored by Eleftheria Iliadou.

Collection Method

Planned collection via 12-month patient monitoring using medical devices, wearables, and clinical assessments.

Time Range

The monitoring study is planned to last 12 months; specific start date is not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 14:24:20; freshness should be verified as this is a future date.