Insomnia Treatment

Starry Night

IntroductionDesign Concept

-Introduction of Insomnia -Solutions

Design Approach -Target Subject

-Persona -Image Board

-Bench Marketing

Prototype -Sketches

-Working Model

Conclution -Future Process

-Reference

Design ConceptTo help people with insomnia or sleeping problems reach a mental peaceful and physical stable stage to fall asleep.

“Research has shown that behavioral interventions alone, or in combination with cognitive therapy and sleep hygiene, can be used to effectively treat both primary insomnia and insomnia comorbid with other disorders”

-Reference from Handbook of insomnia

Soft Social Support

Breathing Pattern

Mentally

Physically+

“Supportive ties were pos- itively related to sleep quality, while aversive ties predicted worse sleep quality, associations that were primarily seen for close relationships. ” - reference from Social Relationships and Sleep Quality

Stress

Physical discomfort

Medicine effect

Problem within ageTemperture

Noises

Light

Environmental Personal

“Insomnia refers to a difficulty in initiating or maintaining sleep at least three nights per week for at least three months, accompanied by impaired daytime functioning.” -Reference from Handbook of insomnia

Introduction of Insomnia

SolutionsThere are several ways to solve personal factors.

PeaceYoga or stretching your body can make your muscles relax and reach mentally peaceful.

No Stimulations No food, coffee, tea or cigarette 2 hours before going to sleep can make your blood-sugar level stay stable.

Reference: Handbook of Insomnia, Published by Springer Healthcare Ltd, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, UK.

How do designers help people sleep?

Design ApproachThourgh resources from thesis, and target group research we got database.Sketches and prototype help we to realize this interaction design.

Since there are such high percentage of people suffer from sleeping obstacles,we targeted the university students and young worker as the main group of our product. And we use a questionaire to collect their experience of sleep problems.

“80% of the sleeping maladjustment people NEVER talk to doctors” -Reference from [Asia Sleep Association, 2003]

Target Group

MedicineLifestyle

Projecter Base

Non Projecter Base Starry Night

Product Positioning

After the benchmarking and analyze the informations,we had found the positionof Starry Night is located in the middle between medicine and lifestyle.

It will be a non projecter base product and we want more interaction with the users.

Hannah

AgeOccupationRelationship Location

202rd Year Bachelor Law studentSingle, traightUrban city area, Eindhoven

Reasons of insomnia

Stress

Physical discomfort

Environment

Goal EducationalSocialPhysical

BrotherStudy situationPerfectionismWorkInsomnia itself

Stress source

Hannah is an introvert 20 years old female. she has one sister living with her parents in her hometown. Her older brother studies in Australia. She really looks up to her brother, since he is more extrovert and lives in Australia now. Also, she misses him.

In her spare time, she is part of the local student soccer team.And she likes to watch movies or drink tea with friends in the evening and read fashion magazines. She lives in a student house, where she both studies and sleeps. She does not have a TV in her room, but uses her laptop for homework and relaxation.

“I will continue and improve my life as I’m doing right now.”

Persona

Image board

Goodnight Biological LED LampDuux Baby ProjectorExlight Aurora Borealis ProjectortAurora Master Ocean

Benchmarking

Social bond is an important factors which affect insomnia patients,so we are working on a way to put this element into our product to help people feel safe and bonded.

Taptap Breath together

When the insomnia patient feellonely and afraid there is no one like them, they can tap on their phoneor a button and the starry night will respond by lighting up and show peoplewho also awake.

Users can see their own breathing performed on the Starry night by the light up and dark off, which represent Inhaleand exhale.There are two patterns of breathing, the users ones and a bigger pattern represent the intergrate of others. When users try to fit with another pattern, they may feel bonded and safe, but this pattern is actually been adjusted to fit the best temple of the users.

Social bond

With the starry night system, the dim light fiber can attract patient’s attention but have no harm for being too bright; With the twinkle of the light fiber, we provide a breathing pattern which the users can follow and adjust their breath into calm stage.

ConclusionTo create a comfortable environment for relaxing the state of mind and adjust the breathing pattern, we want to build an abstract focus which can make patients feel calm and socially bonded.