Co-sleep: Designing a workplace-based wellness program for sleep deprivation

TL;DR

This paper presents a workplace wellness program leveraging IoT for sleep tracking, raising awareness of sleep deprivation, and addressing privacy concerns through co-design methods.

Contribution

It introduces IoT-based activity tracking concepts for sleep awareness and discusses privacy issues from multiple stakeholder perspectives.

Findings

Identified common causes of sleep deprivation in the workplace.

Developed IoT-based sleep tracking and data sharing concepts.

Highlighted privacy concerns related to personal sleep data use.

Abstract

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/