Validation of Wearable Sleep and Fitness Monitor with SleepTank Model
Abstract
In 2021, IBR made great progress on our SleepTank mobile, watch, and web applications. The SleepTank mobile app has a stable and publicly available version on the Apple App Store. This app version has been used in two studies already, one examining sleep in nurses and one in air ambulance pilots. The SleepTank watch app, a stand-alone watch-based version of SleepTank is also fully functional and available through a private link for our study participants. The SleepTank clockface has been fully developed and provides a watch face-based version of SleepTank that doesnt require to user to navigate to a separate app. The clockface provides vibration notifications to the user of their SleepTank level. We believe this design will help make SleepTank more salient, increasing potential behavior change. Our CSV- data download has also undergone improvements to its stability and reliability. Future versions will not only download sleep and SleepTank data, but also app-usage data. We collected data from two operational trials of SleepTank, in nurses and air ambulance pilots. These data have been examined and some of the data have been submitted as a poster for the Military Health System Research Symposium 2021. Our trial with nurses is ongoing. Future data collection will incorporate the clockface app. We have also received approval for a third operational study in USAF servicemembers. This study is awaiting final updates to our clockface app before commencing recruitment. In late 2021, a new contractor was added to the team to support the SleepTank applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 24, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1167696
Entities
People
- Jaime K. Devine
- Lindsay P. Schwartz
- Steven Hursh