DIS’10 here we go!
July 13, 2010
Tomaso Scherini, Toon van Craenendonck, Wenzhu Zou, Maurits Kaptein, and I got our paper accepted at DIS’10. Our paper is entitled Enhancing the Sleeping Quality of Partners Living Apart and describes the design case we carried out last year as part of USI program. I mentioned our design case in a previous post.
DIS’10 takes place in Aarhus (Denmark) between 16-20 August, 2010. We will attend it and I’ll be student volunteer there as well! \o/
You can have a look at the abstract of our paper below.
An increasing number of people report sleeping problems. In the present paper we describe Somnia: a system designed to support remote couples to fall asleep faster and to enhance their sleep quality. Following a user-centered design process, Somnia was designed and evaluated. Qualitative feedback after a two-week user study shows that Somnia succeeds in providing a sense of connectedness between partners when sleeping remotely. This sense of connectedness might lead to a more pleasant sleeping experience. Based on our findings we recommend designers of sleep related technologies to (a) incorporate the social aspects of sleep in their designs and (b) to focus on emotional arguments rather than rational arguments to influence sleeping habits.
In the future I will post our presentation here!
