Cosmic Dreamers| Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool
Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool
NASA Health
Summary
With this project, we want to develop an app that connects to a smart wristband that astronauts are going to wear. Our goal is to monitor the activities they are going to perform, such as exercising, sleeping hours, food intake, and calories burned. The app will analyze this information and suggest changes in their routine that help improve the person's rest and performance.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We developed an app that works with a smart wristband that can measure your vital signs while you sleep and throughout the day. It works thanks to multiple sensors that collect data from your activities. The wristband sends all of the information to the app and can develop a schedule for you to sleep, eat and do exercise. What we want to achieve is sleep and energy optimization through the day so everything that they do is as productive as possible.
How We Developed This Project
We found out adequate sleeping periods are key to have a better performance in our daily lives, in any environment, on land or in space. We had a brainstorm, there were quite a few ideas and they were very good, but the reality is that we could not structure all of them in the time lapse we had. So we decided that we should focus on one idea, which was to create an app that could solve sleep problems that occur in space and ways to improve it such as exercising and dieting schedules. This is why we wanted to create a tool to promote a better quality of sleeping periods based on biological scientific studies such as an organized time for each meal and its nutritional properties, and lengths of excercise therapies.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We used data provided to increase our knowledge about how astronauts spent their time in a mission on space. We researched about the different scenarios which cause sleep depravation, that way we could see how to improve sleep time and quality. With this data, we were able to finish our project and develop our ideas.
Project Demo
Data & Resources
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NASA Research Reveals Biological Clock Effects on Sleep for Astronauts. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-research-reveals-biological-clock-misalignment-effects-on-sleep-for-astronauts/
NASA Space Apps Challenge. (2020, September 25). Pamela Baskin (NASA) | Considerations for the “Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool” Challenge. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH2hL5Ua_m8
NASA Video. (2013, May 22). The Sleep Station. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICCuD4M9nIs
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Seven Ways Astronauts Improve Sleep May Help You Snooze Better. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/astronauts_improve_sleep/
The Human Body in Space. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace/