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

睡眠是幼儿父母的一个主要问题。大量面向新父母的“睡眠训练”畅销书，以及为新父母提供的众多课程，重点是帮助他们更好地处理婴儿的睡眠，都证明了这一点。但是，尽管教育父母如何教他们的孩子睡觉的关注，获得良好的睡眠仍然是最焦虑的方面之一的养育。目前市场上有大量的婴儿监视器，但没有一个能提供有关睡眠的直接信息。大多数设备都提供音频监视器，以便父母可以听到他们的宝宝是否在哭泣。但是声音并不能很好地代表睡眠。该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个问题。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和具有成本效益，以便父母能够监测婴儿的睡眠。该团队将开发一种产品，为父母提供有关婴儿的有用信息？通过比较婴儿的测量值和数据库的其他部分，来确定婴儿的睡眠情况。 该团队打算将该技术应用于广泛的神经测量消费产品，包括在整个生命周期中自我监测睡眠，监测职业司机的觉醒/警惕性（例如，卡车司机）和飞行员，以及监控安全人员的唤醒/警惕（例如，TSA）。

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).