During this pandemic social isolation scenario, there was an abrupt increase in anxiety and depression rates, sleep deprivation is one of the major causes for increasing these rates of mental disorders.
Our project intends to develop a wearable device, in a hood shape that will take the user's body readings through sensors, such as blood pressure, temperature, among others, detecting possible problems that cause sleep deprivation and initiating configurable vibration procedures, sound emissions and heating to help the user to have a pleasant, peaceful sleep and with less external interruptions.
We were inspired by the theme as problems related to sleep quality were already occurring before the outbreak of COVID-19, and now have been enhanced by the pandemic. We have a high potential to positively touch thousands of people, improving their sleep and consequently reducing countless problems caused by their deficit, where some are irreversible.
Our approach was to innovate in how our product uses the data captured by the monitoring, which is by providing instant sensory impulses to improve and deal with root causes of a bad night's sleep.
We mostly used the space agency data to give us the insight for this new sleep device, but it will also be used to create initial parameters of what is a successfull night of sleep.
We used the app.mural.co, to organize the ideation and execution of activities, and as our project is to create a new type of wearable device, we used Balsamiq and power point to create diagrams.
We had some difficulty to find the most accurate data to base our theories, and we didn't have any hardware to try create a physical prototype , and our biggest achievements were that even with the lack of hardware resources, we were able to abstract the solution and create a successful pitch.
https://youtu.be/PzESy--JbCM (please enable the English subtitles)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/astronauts_improve_sleep
https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/Countermeasures-to-Neurobehavioral-Deficits-from-C/85rx-h3dg
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20050218840
https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/Wearable-Device-for-Objective-Sleep-Monitoring-Pha/jz83-ithk
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-research-reveals-biological-clock-misalignment-effects-on-sleep-for-astronauts
https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/Evidence/reports/Sleep.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/astronauts_improve_sleep
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/stemonstrations_sleep-science.pdf