Title

The Wearable Lullaby: Improving Sleep Quality Of Caregivers Of Dementia Patients

Keywords

Caregivers; Dementia; Design; Experimentation; Healthcare; Human factors; Motion sensor; Sleep

Abstract

This research introduces a wearable system (the Wearable Lullaby) designed for a non-ambulatory person with dementia who wakes up frequently during the night and keeps his caregivers (family members) from sleeping. The objective of the research is to investigate the viability of a wearable simulated presence therapy system in improving the quality of sleep in caregivers of dementia patients. The simulated presence therapy has been demonstrated to assist dementia patients; however, it has not yet been positioned as a wearable device. A total of three field studies were conducted in this research to test the feasibility of the wearable simulated presence therapy for family members who have dementia patients.

Publication Date

4-27-2013

Publication Title

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volume

2013-April

Number of Pages

409-414

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468429

Socpus ID

85015038996 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85015038996

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