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Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool
Time To Dream
Summary
"Time to Dream" provide its users with a personalized sleep plan, complemented with food and physical activity guides, organized in the most precise way that the maximum benefit is obtained in its realization. Its functionality is based inthe internal mechanism of the circadian cycle and how it influence on sleep / wake cycles, hormonal secretion, body temperature, eating habits and digestion.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Pilots, astronauts and the supporting team on Earth, face drastic changes in their biological cycles that lead to sleeping difficulties, gastrointestinal discomfort and eating disorders that result in loss of energy, daytime fatigue and therefore a decrease in productivity and increased risk of errors. Therefore, a tool is necessary to provide its users with a personalized sleep plan, complemented with food and physical activity guides, organized in the most precise way that the maximum benefit is obtained in its realization.
It helps the air and space sector, including people who suffer alterations in their circadian cycle derived from work or other reasons.
The application inspires, since it not only focuses on the development of technology, but also on the human being focusing on guaranteeing the Right to Health, thus achieving one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and contributing to human dignity.
Our complete project is available in the next link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K-eBqvkCJPEYLOoybFbcX3r-nfNF6BvMtLYg_PP3bQw/edit
How We Developed This Project
We were inspired by how fascinating is life in space and how essential activities such as sleeping, eating and exercising change totally in there, because the body has to face a hostile environment, where the body faces internal changes and must adapt to the new lifestyle.
Another decisive aspect to choice this challenge was the great impact that lack of sleep has on labor productivity and the increased risk of errors.
For the development of the project, we set out to analyze in depth the internal mechanism of the circadian cycle and identify those factors that could be modified to increase the quality of sleep and therefore productivity.
Three main goals were established: to
- Promote good sleep hygiene,
- Establish a suitable diet for the user and the optimal intake schedule
- Suggest the optimal time for exercise as well as recommendations to increase the physical performance of astronauts.
For the development of the application, it is proposed to use the Python programming language, since it meets the requirements to carry out the operation of the application. It is a multiplatform programming language, which is considered one of the most important points of ease for the user.
The estimated time for the development process is an estimated of at least one year to be able to detail the functions of Time to Dream.
As for the data storage server, the most suitable to use is My SQL, because it is open source, secure, fast and is compatible with the programming language with which the application is developed.
- Provide recommendations or reminders to minimise disturbances of sleep cycles to pilots and astronauts;
- Accompaniment of the astronaut since days before launch;
- Personalised calculation of the energy requirements of an astronaut on mission;
- Suggestion of meal plan and intake schedule;
- Reminder system to improve physical performance during physical activity through pre and post exercise snacks, as well as a time to start exercising;
- Reminders for taking Melatonin;
- Nap time reminders;
- All reminders are adjusted to the user's personal schedule.
The application has buttons for each function, which are the following:
- Home: User Type
- Time and place of launch, landing, docking and undocking: By entering this data, the application performs the calculation of schedules to compensate hours of sleep and calculates the optimal sleep period according to this compensation of schedules to generate recommendations to the user on how to prepare travel and decrease symptoms of jet lag or travel fatigue. Type of shift, start of sleep cycle, start of work activities: From the information obtained, reminders for sleep hygiene, food and physical activity will be programmed.
- Gender, age, weight and height: Based on this information, the application calculates the user's daily caloric requirements and suggests a meal menu with a specific time for their intake that guarantees the best energy and nutritional use.
- Record of physical activity performed, time consumed and calories consumed. Previously, the user receives the most optimal times for physical activity within the ISS, offering suggestions for snacks that increase physical performance and recovery.
- Fatigue survey: It will be applied once a week to evaluate the performance of users in their daily activities.
- Sleep quality survey: it will be applied once a week in order to detect factors that are not being controlled in the correct way.
Our complete project is available in the next link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K-eBqvkCJPEYLOoybFbcX3r-nfNF6BvMtLYg_PP3bQw/edit
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
The open data help us to get better and confiable information about nutrition in the ISS.
For example we use:
Barger, L., Charles, J., & Lane, H. (n.d.). How Humans Adapt to Spaceflight: Physiological Changes. Retrieved October 3, 2020, fromhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/584739main_Wings-ch5d-pgs370-407.pdf
NASA. (2015). Lighting System to Improve Circadian Rhythm Control. http://technology.nasa.gov/
NASA. (2016). Evidence Report: Risk of Performance Decrements and Adverse Health Outcomes Resulting from Sleep Loss, Circadian Desynchronization, and Work Overload.
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Data & Resources
Barger, L., Charles, J., & Lane, H. (n.d.). How Humans Adapt to Spaceflight: Physiological Changes. Retrieved October 3, 2020, fromhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/584739main_Wings-ch5d-pgs370-407.pdf
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Jiménez Rubio, G., Solís-Chagoyán, H., Aline Domínguez, A., & Benítez King, G. (2011). Circadian cycle alterations in psychiatric diseases: melatonin synchronizing role in the sleep-wake cycle and neuronal polarity.http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/sm/v34n2/v34n2a10.pdf
NASA. (2015). Lighting System to Improve Circadian Rhythm Control. http://technology.nasa.gov/
NASA. (2016). Evidence Report: Risk of Performance Decrements and Adverse Health Outcomes Resulting from Sleep Loss, Circadian Desynchronization, and Work Overload.
Olvera Treviño, C., Moreno González, M. and Benavides Zapien, M., (2018).
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