Abstract
Healthy sleep is crucial to individuals’ health and wellbeing, whereas healthfully waking up from the sleep cycle can significantly improve the sleep quality. Among technologies used as sleep alarms, haptic feedback has been widely adopted to serve as an effective wake-up alarm, yet how it can comfortably wake users up is underexplored. This paper presents a design study of SleepHill, an inflatable sleep pillow that can incrementally bounce its body and softly tilt its surface to create a gentle yet efficient haptic alarm for comfortable wake-up. We prototyped SleepHill and conducted a pilot user study to preliminarily understand the resulted user experiences. Our findings revealed that the wake-up process facilitated by SleepHill allowed participants to be gently awakened without being frightened. Also, we learned that the usage of SleepHill could produce improved sleep and wake-up experiences due to its incremental haptic feedback mechanism. Based on this project, we discuss implications for the future development of embedded tangible interaction design for improving the sleep circle with enriched wake-up experiences.
W. Xun, P. Zhang, Z. Liu and Y. Meng—Contributed equally to this paper as co-first authors.
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This work was supported by The National Social Science Fund of China (21CG192) and Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars (XSQD202018002).
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Xun, W. et al. (2022). SleepHill: Designing an Incrementally Bouncing Pillow as a Comfortable Wake-Up Approach. In: Göbl, B., van der Spek, E., Baalsrud Hauge, J., McCall, R. (eds) Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022. ICEC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20212-4_27
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