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Combining wearable and environmental sensing into an unobtrusive tool for long-term sleep studies

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Long-term sleep monitoring of patients has been identified as a useful tool to observe sleep trends manifest themselves over weeks or months for use in behavioral studies. In practice, this has been limited to coarse-grained methods such as actigraphy, for which the levels of activity are logged, and which provide some insight but have simultaneously been found to lack accuracy to be used for studying sleeping disorders. This paper presents a method to automatically detect the user's sleep at home on a long-term basis. Inertial, ambient light, and time data tracked from a wrist-worn sensor, and additional night vision footage is used for later expert inspection. An evaluation on over 4400 hours of data from a focus group of test subjects demonstrates a high re-call night segment detection, obtaining an average of 94%. Further, a clustering to visualize reoccurring sleep patterns is presented, and a myoclonic twitch detection is introduced, which exhibits a precision of 74%. The results indicate that long-term sleep pattern detections are feasible.

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      IHI '12: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
      January 2012
      914 pages
      ISBN:9781450307819
      DOI:10.1145/2110363

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