Sleep Ecologies

Lockton, Dan; Zea-Wolfson, Tammar; Chou, Jackie; Song, Yuhan; Ryan, Erin; Walsh, C. J.

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395482

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“…Autoethnography's adaptability allows researchers to question and reimagine technology use, as seen in the exploration of mobile blood pressure monitor devices during non-routine usage [41]. Researchers have used quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate healthy student sleep in sleep autoethnography, creating artifacts to aid self-inquiry [43].…”

Section: Autoethnographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Autoethnography of Living with a Sleep Robot

Biswas,

Dooley,

Coulthard

et al. 2024

MTI

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Soft robotics is used in real-world clinical situations, including surgery, rehabilitation, and diagnosis. However, several challenges remain to make soft robots more viable, especially for clinical interventions such as improving sleep quality, which impacts physiological and mental health. This paper presents an autoethnographic account of the experience of sleeping with a companion robot (Somnox), which mimics breathing to promote better sleep. The study is motivated by the key author’s experience with insomnia and a desire to better understand how Somnox is used in different social contexts. Data were collected through diary entries for 16 weeks (8 weeks without, 8 weeks with) and analysed thematically. The findings indicate improved sleep and observations about the relationship developed with the companion robot, including emotional connection and empathy for the technology. Furthermore, Somnox is a multidimensional family companion robot that can ease stomach discomfort and stress, reduce anxiety, and provide holistic care.

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Section: Autoethnographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Autoethnography of Living with a Sleep Robot

Biswas,

Dooley,

Coulthard

et al. 2024

MTI

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“…Thing 2 cards contain an image, generally a photograph, which can be combined with Thing 1 cards to form a metaphor, e.g., an image of a bird. While the New Metaphors Toolkit has been used to generate new ideas about visualizing sleep patterns [37], and in other contexts, it had not been previously applied to HRI or seen as a method to break free of assumptions about robots.…”

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confidence: 99%

Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction

Alves‐Oliveira

Lupetti

Luria

et al. 2021

Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

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The word "robot" frequently conjures unrealistic expectations of utilitarian perfection: tireless, efficient, and flawless agents. However, real-world robots are far from perfect-they fail and make mistakes. Thus, roboticists should consider altering their current assumptions and cultivating new perspectives that account for a more complete range of robot roles, behaviors, and interactions. To encourage this, we explore the use of metaphors for generating novel ideas and reframing existing problems, eliciting new perspectives of human-robot interaction. Our work makes two contributions. We (1) surface current assumptions that accompany the term "robots," and (2) present a collection of alternative perspectives of interaction with robots through metaphors. By identifying assumptions, we provide a comprehensible list of aspects to reconsider regarding robots' physicality, roles, and behaviors. Through metaphors, we propose new ways of examining how we can use, relate to, and co-exist with the robots that will share our future.

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“…The prescription seems personalized based on one's own data, and the success or failure is measured by adherence and improved performance based on measured data. In what is framed as "autoethnography" around sleep, Lockton and colleagues recently focused on participants designing probes that would let them reflect on aspects of sleep important to them, individually (Lockton et al, 2020). Here, the emphasis of the work is on reflection on current practice rather than changing it to sleep better.…”

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Experiment in a Box (XB): An Interactive Technology Framework for Sustainable Health Practices

schraefel

Muresan

Hekler

2021

Front. Comput. Sci.

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This paper presents the Experiment in a Box (XB) framework to support interactive technology design for building health skills. The XB provides a suite of experiments—time-limited, loosely structured evaluations of health heuristics for a user-as-experimenter to select from and then test in order to determine that heuristic’s efficacy, and to explore how it might be incorporated into the person’s life and when necessary, to support their health and wellbeing. The approach leverages self-determination theory to support user autonomy and competence to build actionable, personal health knowledge skills and practice (KSP). In the three studies of XB presented, we show that with even the short engagement of an XB experiment, participants develop health practices from the interventions that are still in use long after the intervention is finished. To situate the XB approach relative to other work around health practices in HCI in particular, we contribute two design continua for this design space: insourcing to outsourcing and habits to heuristics. From this analysis, we demonstrate that XB is situated in a largely under-explored area for interactive health interventions: the insourcing and heuristic oriented area of the design space. Overall, the work offers a new scaffolding, the XB Framework, to instantiate time-limited interactive technology interventions to support building KSP that can thrive in that person, significantly both post-interventions, and independent of that technology.

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Sleep Ecologies

Cited by 28 publications

References 36 publications

Autoethnography of Living with a Sleep Robot

Autoethnography of Living with a Sleep Robot

Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction

Experiment in a Box (XB): An Interactive Technology Framework for Sustainable Health Practices

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