Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool

Sleep loss and fatigue may lead to reduced performance and an increased risk to safety during many activities, including spaceflight. Your challenge is to develop an operational sleep shift scheduling tool that provides autonomous customization of a schedule for sleep, exercise, and nutrition to manage fatigue.

Sleep Schedule and Day Planner

Summary

In our project, we used Python 3 to create a sleep schedule and day planner. Events throughout the day are planned according to an inputted sleep time, such as the optimal time to exercise in relation to the time sleep is put in as. The goal of the program is to make it easier to organize the day as well as figure out an optimum schedule according to a personalized time frame to minimize the chances of other daily activities interfering with sleep or vice versa.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The project addresses this challenge by creating a freely customizable schedule that is based on what time they want to sleep, and adapts it into as optimal of a schedule for body health as we could do, in order to manage their fatigue.

How We Developed This Project

We used exclusively Python 3 within our project, using codeshare.io to collaborate. Due to using a singular language and having minimal experience, we couldn't effectively bring out what we wanted. We focused more on planning, as we were limited with coding knowledge to bring about our project. This focused on really how we might use NASA data in a schedule (Such as the to-be mentioned food calorie and nutrition recommendation and calculator). Mostly, this was an experience type of thing for our entire team, and I think we all successfully learned new things about Python and what Hackathons are. 

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Although not implemented, we had planned to use This article from NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/stem-on-station/ditl_eating To get nutritional values in order to create a working food calorie calculator and intake guide. This would enable healthy sleep since nutrition is clearly an aspect to staying healthy and well. Our planned calorie calculator would have tracked how many calories and recommend what kind of foods one might want to consume. 

Tags
#planning #sleep #nutrition
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.