TY - GEN
T1 - Validating a mobile phone application for the everyday, unobtrusive, objective measurement of sleep
AU - Lawson, Shaun
AU - Jamison-Powell, Sue
AU - Garbett, Andrew
AU - Linehan, Conor
AU - Kucharczyk, Erica
AU - Verbaan, Sanne
AU - Rowland, Duncan
AU - Morgan, Kevin
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - There is an identified need for objective, reliable, and scalable methods of measuring and recording sleep. Such methods must be designed for easy integration into people's lives in order to support both sleep therapy and everyday personal informatics. This paper describes the design and evaluation of a mobile phone application to record sleep, the design of which has substantive foundation in clinical sleep research. Two user studies were carried out which demonstrate that the application produces valid measurements of sleep quality and high levels of usability, whilst not seriously disturbing sleep or the sleep environment. These findings suggest that the app is suitable for both everyday sleep monitoring in a personal informatics context, and for integration into sleep interventions.
AB - There is an identified need for objective, reliable, and scalable methods of measuring and recording sleep. Such methods must be designed for easy integration into people's lives in order to support both sleep therapy and everyday personal informatics. This paper describes the design and evaluation of a mobile phone application to record sleep, the design of which has substantive foundation in clinical sleep research. Two user studies were carried out which demonstrate that the application produces valid measurements of sleep quality and high levels of usability, whilst not seriously disturbing sleep or the sleep environment. These findings suggest that the app is suitable for both everyday sleep monitoring in a personal informatics context, and for integration into sleep interventions.
KW - Insomnia
KW - Mobile computing
KW - Personal informatics
KW - Sleep
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84877972672
U2 - 10.1145/2470654.2481345
DO - 10.1145/2470654.2481345
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84877972672
SN - 9781450318990
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2497
EP - 2506
BT - CHI 2013
T2 - 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives, CHI 2013
Y2 - 27 April 2013 through 2 May 2013
ER -