SleepHill: Designing an Incrementally Bouncing Pillow as a Comfortable Wake-Up Approach

Wenshu Xun; Pengsong Zhang; Zixuan Liu; Yufei Meng; Yaqi Zheng; Renyao Zou; Xipei Ren

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20212-4_27

SleepHill: Designing an Incrementally Bouncing Pillow as a Comfortable Wake-Up Approach

Wenshu Xun, Pengsong Zhang, Zixuan Liu, Yufei Meng, Yaqi Zheng, Renyao Zou, Xipei Ren^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Design and Art, Beijing Institute of Technology

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022 - 21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Barbara Göbl, Erik van der Spek, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Rod McCall
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	333-341
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9783031202117
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20212-4_27
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2022 - Bremen, Germany Duration: 1 Nov 2022 → 3 Nov 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13477 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2022
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Bremen
Period	1/11/22 → 3/11/22

Keywords

Inflation-based haptic feedback
Interactive sleep pillow
Wake-up experience

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Xun, W., Zhang, P., Liu, Z., Meng, Y., Zheng, Y., Zou, R., & Ren, X. (2022). SleepHill: Designing an Incrementally Bouncing Pillow as a Comfortable Wake-Up Approach. In B. Göbl, E. van der Spek, J. Baalsrud Hauge, J. Baalsrud Hauge, & R. McCall (Eds.), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022 - 21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2022, Proceedings (pp. 333-341). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13477 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20212-4_27

Xun, Wenshu ; Zhang, Pengsong ; Liu, Zixuan et al. / SleepHill : Designing an Incrementally Bouncing Pillow as a Comfortable Wake-Up Approach. Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022 - 21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2022, Proceedings. editor / Barbara Göbl ; Erik van der Spek ; Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge ; Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge ; Rod McCall. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 333-341 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Xun, W, Zhang, P, Liu, Z, Meng, Y, Zheng, Y, Zou, R & Ren, X 2022, SleepHill: Designing an Incrementally Bouncing Pillow as a Comfortable Wake-Up Approach. in B Göbl, E van der Spek, J Baalsrud Hauge, J Baalsrud Hauge & R McCall (eds), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022 - 21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2022, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13477 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 333-341, 21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2022, Bremen, Germany, 1/11/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20212-4_27

SleepHill: Designing an Incrementally Bouncing Pillow as a Comfortable Wake-Up Approach. / Xun, Wenshu; Zhang, Pengsong; Liu, Zixuan et al.
Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022 - 21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Barbara Göbl; Erik van der Spek; Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge; Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge; Rod McCall. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 333-341 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13477 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Xun W, Zhang P, Liu Z, Meng Y, Zheng Y, Zou R et al. SleepHill: Designing an Incrementally Bouncing Pillow as a Comfortable Wake-Up Approach. In Göbl B, van der Spek E, Baalsrud Hauge J, Baalsrud Hauge J, McCall R, editors, Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022 - 21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2022, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2022. p. 333-341. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20212-4_27

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