Co-sleep: Designing a workplace-based wellness program for sleep deprivation
This addresses sleep deprivation for employees in workplace settings, but it is incremental as it builds on existing wellness program approaches.
The study tackled sleep deprivation in the workplace by designing a wellness program using co-design methods with nine participants, resulting in smart IoT concepts for activity tracking and identifying privacy concerns related to sleep data use.
Sleep deprivation is a public health issue. Awareness of sleep deprivation has not been widely investigated in workplace-based wellness programmes. This study adopted a three-stage design process with nine participants from a local manufacturing company to help raise awareness of sleep deprivation. The common causes of sleep deprivation were identified through the deployment of technology probes and participant interviews. The study contributes smart Internet of things(IoT) workplace-based design concepts for activity tracking that may aid sleep and explore ways of sharing personal sleep data within the workplace. Through the use of co-design methods, the study also highlights prominent privacy concerns relating to use of personal data from different stakeholders' perspectives, including the unexpected use of sleep data by organisations for fatigue risk management and the evaluation of employee performance. The Actigrahy and sleep diary data can be accessed online through https://github.com/famousgrouse/pervasivehealth/