Enhancing the sleeping quality of partners living apart

Tomaso Scherini; Paulo Melo; Toon van Craenendonck; Wenzhu Zou; Maurits Kaptein

doi:10.1145/1858171.1858201

Enhancing the sleeping quality of partners living apart

Tomaso Scherini, Paulo Melo, Toon van Craenendonck, Wenzhu Zou, Maurits Kaptein

Industrial Design

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

9 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

An increasing number of people reports sleeping problems. In the present paper we describe Somnia: a system designed to support remote couples to fall asleep faster and to enhance their sleep quality. Following a user-centered design process, Somnia was prototyped and evaluated. Qualitative feedback after a two-week user study showed that Somnia succeeded in providing a sense of connectedness between partners when sleeping remotely. This sense of connectedness might lead to a more pleasant sleeping experience. Based on our findings, we recommend designers of sleep related technologies to (a) incorporate the social aspects of sleep in their designs and (b) to focus on emotional arguments rather than rational arguments to influence sleeping habits.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Pages	171-174
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1858171.1858201
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2010 - Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 16 Aug 2010 → 20 Aug 2010

Conference

Conference	8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2010
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	16/08/10 → 20/08/10

Keywords

remote couples
sleep enhancement
social connectedness

Access to Document

10.1145/1858171.1858201

Cite this

@inproceedings{7a8771f8c0bc4aa29d60100effbd8a4c,

title = "Enhancing the sleeping quality of partners living apart",

abstract = "An increasing number of people reports sleeping problems. In the present paper we describe Somnia: a system designed to support remote couples to fall asleep faster and to enhance their sleep quality. Following a user-centered design process, Somnia was prototyped and evaluated. Qualitative feedback after a two-week user study showed that Somnia succeeded in providing a sense of connectedness between partners when sleeping remotely. This sense of connectedness might lead to a more pleasant sleeping experience. Based on our findings, we recommend designers of sleep related technologies to (a) incorporate the social aspects of sleep in their designs and (b) to focus on emotional arguments rather than rational arguments to influence sleeping habits.",

keywords = "remote couples, sleep enhancement, social connectedness",

author = "Tomaso Scherini and Paulo Melo and {van Craenendonck}, Toon and Wenzhu Zou and Maurits Kaptein",

year = "2010",

doi = "10.1145/1858171.1858201",

language = "English",

isbn = "9781450301039",

pages = "171--174",

booktitle = "DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems",

note = "8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2010 ; Conference date: 16-08-2010 Through 20-08-2010",

}

TY - GEN

T1 - Enhancing the sleeping quality of partners living apart

AU - Scherini, Tomaso

AU - Melo, Paulo

AU - van Craenendonck, Toon

AU - Zou, Wenzhu

AU - Kaptein, Maurits

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - An increasing number of people reports sleeping problems. In the present paper we describe Somnia: a system designed to support remote couples to fall asleep faster and to enhance their sleep quality. Following a user-centered design process, Somnia was prototyped and evaluated. Qualitative feedback after a two-week user study showed that Somnia succeeded in providing a sense of connectedness between partners when sleeping remotely. This sense of connectedness might lead to a more pleasant sleeping experience. Based on our findings, we recommend designers of sleep related technologies to (a) incorporate the social aspects of sleep in their designs and (b) to focus on emotional arguments rather than rational arguments to influence sleeping habits.

AB - An increasing number of people reports sleeping problems. In the present paper we describe Somnia: a system designed to support remote couples to fall asleep faster and to enhance their sleep quality. Following a user-centered design process, Somnia was prototyped and evaluated. Qualitative feedback after a two-week user study showed that Somnia succeeded in providing a sense of connectedness between partners when sleeping remotely. This sense of connectedness might lead to a more pleasant sleeping experience. Based on our findings, we recommend designers of sleep related technologies to (a) incorporate the social aspects of sleep in their designs and (b) to focus on emotional arguments rather than rational arguments to influence sleeping habits.

KW - remote couples

KW - sleep enhancement

KW - social connectedness

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78149327948&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/1858171.1858201

DO - 10.1145/1858171.1858201

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:78149327948

SN - 9781450301039

SP - 171

EP - 174

BT - DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

T2 - 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2010

Y2 - 16 August 2010 through 20 August 2010

ER -

Enhancing the sleeping quality of partners living apart

Abstract

Conference

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this