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Workshop & Non-Archival Paper

Lullaby: Environmental Sensing for Sleep Self-Improvement

Matthew Kay, Eun Kyoung Choe, Jesse Shepherd, Ben Greenstein, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Julie Kientz

Workshop on Personal Informatics, CHI '11, 2011

May 2011

Abstract

We are developing a system to help users improve the quality of their sleep by monitoring environmental factors that disrupt sleep and providing feedback. This system, called Lullaby, has several design goals. Lullaby’s sensor suite should be practical for deployment into bedrooms: it must be unobtrusive, inexpensive, and respect users’ privacy in this sensitive context. Lullaby should identify relationships between sleep disruptions and environmental factors and reflect those back to the user. Finally, Lullaby should provide concrete recommendations for addressing the identified sleep disruptors. In this paper, we describe the design of Lullaby’s sensor suite and user interface, and how it will support personal use in the home.

Cite this paper
@inproceedings{kay2011lullaby,
  title     = {Lullaby: Environmental Sensing for Sleep Self-Improvement},
  author    = {Kay, Matthew and Choe, Eun Kyoung and Shepherd, Jesse and Greenstein, Ben and Consolvo, Sunny and Kelley, Patrick Gage and Kientz, Julie},
  year      = {2011},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Personal Informatics, CHI '11, 2011},
  url       = {https://pgk.io/papers/2011-lullaby-environmental-sensing-for-sleep-self-improvement/},
}
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