I-Corps: Dream Catcher: A High-Fidelity Baby Sleep Monitor

对于年幼孩子的父母来说，睡眠是一个主要问题。这一点体现在面向新父母的大量畅销书中，以及为新父母提供的大量课程，这些课程的重点是帮助他们更好地控制婴儿的睡眠。但是，尽管教育父母如何教孩子入睡受到了关注，但获得良好的夜间睡眠仍然是育儿过程中最容易引发焦虑的方面之一。目前市场上有大量的婴儿监控器，但没有一款提供有关睡眠的直接信息。大多数设备都提供了音频监控器，这样父母就可以听到孩子是否在哭。但声音并不能很好地代表睡眠。拟议中的项目将通过开发供父母在家使用的高保真婴儿睡眠监测器来解决这一问题。i-Corps团队将开发一种消费产品，提供更好、更直接的睡眠信息。该团队将利用硬件和软件的最新发展，使测量和监测睡眠变得简单且经济高效，这样父母就能够监测他们婴儿的睡眠。该团队将开发一款产品，通过将宝宝S的睡眠数据与数据库中其他数据进行比较，为父母提供有关宝宝睡眠的有用信息。该团队打算将该技术应用于广泛的神经测量消费产品中，包括在整个生命周期内自我监测睡眠，监测职业司机(如卡车司机)和飞行员的觉醒/警觉，以及监测安保人员(如TSA)的警醒/警觉。

Sleep is a major problem for parents of young children. This is demonstrated by the large number of best-selling books on "sleep training" geared toward new parents, and by the numerous courses offered to new parents focusing on helping them get a better handle on their infant's sleep. But despite the attention given to educating parents about how to teach their children to sleep, getting a good night sleep remains one of the most anxiety-provoking aspects of parenting. There are a large number of baby monitors currently on the market, but none provide direct information about sleep. The majority of devices provide an audio monitor so that parents can hear whether their baby is crying. But sound is a poor proxy for sleep. The proposed project will solve this problem by developing the high-fidelity baby sleep monitor for use at home by parents.This I-Corps team will develop a consumer product that will provide better and more direct information about sleep. The team will leverage recent developments in both hardware and software to make measuring and monitoring sleep simple and cost effective, so that parents will be able to monitor their infant's sleep. The team will develop a product that provides parents with useful information about their baby?s sleep by comparing measurements from their baby with the rest of the database. The team intends to apply the technology in a wide range of neurometric consumer products including self-monitoring of sleep throughout the lifespan, monitoring arousal/vigilance of professional drivers (e.g.,truck drivers) and pilots, and monitoring arousal/vigilance of security personnel (e.g.,TSA).