Sleep and productivity

November 2013

Sleep and productivityExplore the relationship between the variousaspects of daytime functioning and sleep parameters

DD 301: Introduction to Interaction Design Guide: Asst. Prof. Sharmistha Banerjee

Bhawna AgarwalRicha Tripathi

We used a human-centered design approach to examine the habits, motivations, and aspirations of college students Study of varied sleeping habits of college students - extensive research on sleep patterns and sleepiness in students. At the beginning stages of this investigation we used the HCD methods of recruiting various backgrounds and genders for our interviews.

Through our interviews we were able to create stories and personas and �nd common themes from the students.

Fundamental Behaviours.Human-centered design identifies the fundamental elements to human behavior. Many people view sleep as merely a “down time” when their brains shut o� and their bodies rest. Students may cut back on sleep, thinking it won’t be a problem, because other responsi-bilities seem much more important.

Analysis of Literature Review

Daytime napping helps to restore one’s energy and alertness.

• One of the core benefits of napping is that you can restore alertness of your brain with just a few minutes of falling into light sleep.

• For some people, productivity takes a dip at 3pm every day. This is exactly where to place a nap, and it has been one of the most powerful ways to bring the productivity back to 100% for a good 1,5 hour session after that.

• One of the key benefits of napping daily is to simply feel less tired.

• Make napping a consistent habit -both frequency and time.

Relation of sleep and productivity with eating and other routinework

• Having large meals can cause indigestion that interferes with sleep.

• According to studies, after eating vegetarian food sleeping for 5 hours makes one more productive than sleeping for 8 hours after having a non vegetarian meal.

Mobile platform could serve as apotential solution

• Mobile technology, is ubiquitous- and yes, the future too!

• Most people who own iPhones use them as their alarm clock — making it all too easy to check email one last time before falling asleep and hard to ever feel unplugged from work and social networks.• Nearly three-quarters of people from the age of 18 to 44 sleep with their phones within reach, according to a 2012

Balancing Quality of sleep withQuantity

• Health care professionals should focus on sleep quality in addition to sleep quantity in their efforts to understand the role of sleep in daily life.

• Due to stress in lives of college students, the quality of sleep is not good - while the quantity is good.

• Quality of sleep and the timing of sleep are as important as quantity. People whose sleep is frequently interrupted or cut short may not get enough of both non-REM sleep and REM sleep. Both types of sleep appear to be crucial for learning and memory—and perhaps for the restorative bene�ts of healthy sleep, including the growth and repair of cells.

Mwanza

Mediums?Face to face interviews of IITGuwahati students

Via social media and othercommunication facilities -students of other colleges

Our Approach

Our field work5 weeks, 25 interviews: 15Bachelors, 10 Masters.

Insights

- B.tech �rst year student

1313

Headline text over here.

Section (if necessary)

Additional text can go here, too.

Academics and fun takea one up position oversleep in their priority list.

Insight 2

“Mid-sems and end-sems arethe periods of back to backnight-outs.”

- CSE third Year Btech student

“After exams, partying, watching moviesall night is well deserved.”

- CSE third Year Btech student

1616

The Challenge!Helping college students to optimizesleep schedules for maximum produc-tivity and minimum fatigue.

1. How much sleep do we actually need?

2. How do we balance sleep quality with sleep quantity?

3. How do we make students notice their decrease in performance?

We imagineDesigning a mobile application

Thank you.