Space Hackers| Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool
Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool
SpaceSnoozer
Summary
Our project is an app, called SpaceSnoozer, which is made to help astronauts sleep, eat and exercise healthily. It can do this by measuring nutritional values, such as Fluide content, calories, carbohydrates, protein, sodium, sugars, and fat. It measures sleep patterns by looking at how long and the quality of the astronaut's sleep and gives instructions on when to sleep and wake up so that the astronaut is well-rested for the day ahead. It can connect to the rocket and adjust light, temperature, and noise to help the astronaut sleep better. It will give prompts on how the astronaut can live healthily while in space.
How We Addressed This Challenge
The project can help as it is an all-in-one comprehensive app. Instead of a separate app for eating, sleeping, exercising, and well-being, it is one app that does everything, making it more simple. After being used to help astronauts, it can extend to help others who aren’t doing well on eating, sleeping, exercising, and well-being.
How We Developed This Project
We noticed that many people in the world weren’t sleeping well, eating well, exercising well, and having hard times on their mental and physical well being. When we sat down and thought about the different apps that were developed to do all these, we thought, why not combine all the available apps into one big app? Then, we came across the challenge of helping astronauts sleep better. So we all decided to turn this app into a reality, first for astronauts, then the world. We used a website, called www.mad-learn.com to make our app
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We used space agency data in our project to help us figure out what was needed to be in the app, so we could help astronauts live a healthy lifestyle. For example, we found out that the astronauts on the ISS could see up to 16 sunrises in one day. This would impact negatively on their sleep cycle, as their internal clock gets confused and mixed up, resulting in jet-lag and fatigue. This becomes dangerous, as they lose focus, strength, and reaction time, and they have to do many tasks onboard and outside the ship. These tasks require lots of focus, but because of this, they are putting themselves, and the crew and danger. Because of this possible situation, one of the features in our app is to allow them to sleep better.