'Sleep deprivation by late night internet use' - Challenge 2, presented by Team Innovate

1. Team Innovate

2. Limited Conditions

3. 1. Move to a place where there is no internet connection
2. Put all your internet-devices
(mobile, pc, laptop, ipad, etc.) into a safe for the
night (safe will open automatically in the morning)
3. Create an app for your internet-devices that
automatically locks them from e.g. 10pm to 8am
4. Buy a device that interferes with the internet
connection at your home, add a timer (so it only
interferes at night)
5. Leave all your internet-devices at the office
6. Tell your internet provider to cancel the internet
connection at night
7. Live in a place without electricity

4. 8. Sell all your internet-devices
9. Cancel your Facebook account if that’s what keeps
you up
10. Sell your up-to-date internet devices and buy very old
ones (windows 95) would do a good job to make the
internet surfing experience less enjoyable
11. Cancel your ADSL connection
12. Add device that slows down your internet connection
13. No gadget in bedroom
14. Limited monthly Internet usage
15. Use short-life battery gadget
16. For government to set a new law that forbids using
the Internet at homes at night

5. 17. Make Internet access very expensive after 10pm and
before 5am
18. Put all your online-devices in a safe, to open it takes
at least 5 minutes
19. Add a small electric shock when using the online
device after a specific time
20. Do not turn on the heater or air con (depending on
where you are living) when using the computer
21. No electric plugs in the bedroom
22. Encourage parents to remove computers from
children's bedrooms to discourage late night internet
use

6. Social Awareness

7. 23. For every minute you spend online, give 1 dollar/euro to
charity
24. Design and install alarms in apartment blocks and
homes that go off at 10pm every night to remind people to
turn devices off and issue fines to people who do not
comply
25. Join a 'not-going-online-at-night' group that does lots of
things at night
26. ‘Save a sleep, save a coffee, save a life‘ campaign
27. Start a campaign about the link between late night
internet use and mental illness or cancer
28. Design a ‘healthy living computer’ which automatically
turns off at 10pm and has other healthy features such as
low brightness, and provides regular pop-ups with healthy
living advice such as getting enough sleep, stretching and
drinking enough water

8. 29. Start a ‘no technology hour’ campaign to raise
awareness about late night internet use health issues –
similar to earth hour
30. Design an 'internet access personal trainer'
application that provides healthy internet use advice
31. Get the local gym and health food store to partner up
and promote a healthy living package which includes a
personal instructor on health internet use
32. Develop an animated video that warns people about
the dangers of lack of sleep due to late night internet
use
33. Encourage Facebook to shut down its site from
11pm – 5 am everyday

9. 34. Start and promote a 'late night internet access
anonymous support group'
35. Lobby the education minister to add 'dangers of lack
of sleep due to late night internet use' to school
curriculum
36. Start a Facebook campaign on the dangers of lack of
sleep as a result of late night internet use
37. Start an online campaign or pay for advertising
warning of the dangers of lack of sleep as a result of
internet use
38. Start a 'Get to Sleep Early' day to raise awareness
about the issue

10. 39. Make a banner appear across the top of device screens
after 10pm and before 5am with warnings about lack of
sleep
40. Give rewards when not using the phone, e.g. 1 hour = 1 $, 1
day = 20 $, so you might even create a trust with family
members or friends
41. Associate the idea of late night internet use with being
'uncool' or 'anti-social‘
42. Schedule a 'late night yoga session' program that starts at
10pm every night on community TV stations and promote
this as an ideal practice before going to bed
43. Develop and distribute free post cards that provide
information on the impact of late night internet use on
healthy sleeping patterns

11. 44. Get Local Councils to promote late night walking
groups that go for 30min walks around the
neighbourhood. These should be promoted as
something like 'Why surf when you can walk?!'
tours/groups. Or the 'I say no to late night internet
use' walking group.
45. Fund counsellors to visit schools to discuss internet
safety including the dangers of late night internet use
and lack of proper sleep
46. Start a neighbourhood watch program where
neighbours are encouraged to call their neighbours at
night and have a chat or invite each other
around for a cup of tea

12. 47. Develop a brand of tea bags designed to promote
good sleep. Design each tea bag so that the small paper
label on each tea bag has advice on things like: getting
to sleep, healthy internet usage, and ideas on how to
get a good night's sleep.
48. Organise a public forum on the dangers of late night
internet use and how it is related to lack of sleep
49. Encourage medical practitioners to ask patients
about their late night internet use and sleeping
patterns when consulting with their patients and
provide advice and assistance to those whose sleep is
impacted because of regular late night
Internet use

13. 50. Encourage people to 'disconnect from devices' at
night and 'reconnect with people' during the day.
51. Have a 'singing' competition with you neighbours 1hr
before bed

14. Sleep Rules

15. 52. Give yourself a task you have to do everytime before you
go online (e.g. 100 pushups, write 100 times I shouldn't go
online)
53. Getting up early always makes you feel sleepy earlier and
so go to bed early
54. Establish a sleeping pattern
55. Establish rules to not rely on gadgets and integrate them
into your life as habits. Execute one rule at a time
56. No eating or drinking (coffee) while using gadgets as it
keeps you awake longer
57. 1hr before bed, no music, movies or new online
conversation allowed
58. 2hr before bed, finishing up what you need to do with
your gadgets, otherwise planning them out for the next day.

16. 59. I also have a recorder next to my bed. This recorder is
like my diary. I can record whatever I think of into it
and then put it aside and fall asleep. It works like a
planning session, but a planning session is more about
tasks I want to do the next day, while my recorder is all
about my worries, my dreams, my feelings.
60. Handband to remind to sleep on time
61. Get someone reminds you to go to sleep until it
becomes a routine
62. ‘Red beans' and 'Black beans' game to keep you on
track of sleeping.

17. Pre-Bedtime Activities

18. 63. Do lots of sports
64. Go clubbing
65. Get drunk
66. Do yoga
67. Encourage people to buy a dog and to walk it right before
bed as a way to relax, unwind and enjoy wellbeing and
happiness
68. Before getting online, do some light houseworks like
cleaning or organising my room or bookshelf first.
69. Reading is okay only if it does not stir up emotions or
activate more thoughts. Reading something peaceful helps
as well, something about love and life, something that you
dream about, read dictionary, cookbook

19. 70. Before bed time, drawing something on paper may be
able to help to keep you away from the computer and it’s
one creative way to express yourself. Only use pen or pencil
and paper to sketch something around the room, do not
use colours as too much creative will put you on high and
again it’s hard to sleep.
71. Early bird' game to encourage to go to bed early and get up
early
72. Talk to someone (boring) till you fall asleep
73. Ask someone give you a ride around the town at night till
you fall asleep
74. Take on 'unimportant' things such as enrolling in different
free online courses and having side project. It will create a
sense of procrastination. When you feel
procrastinated, you tend to hide by going to bed.

20. 75. Chew a gum for an hour or so until your jar gets tired
and you probably feel sleepy
76. Play with kids if you have. If you don't, maybe asking
your neighbours if they need a baby sister for free.
77. Writing a diary on paper
78. Create an origami a night - Build a garden? a zoo?
Add new animal or tree or flower into your garden
every night. And sell it later?
79. Knitting something for someone you love. This
project will keep you off computer and fall asleep.
80. Buy a crafting book and do the projects in the book
for entertaining or for business.

21. 81. Write your own autobiography book on paper
82. Write your family member autobiography book
83. Write your magic book on paper
84. Learn a new language from books (not computers)
85. Write a letter a night to your family member, your
friend, your neighbour, a bum on the street, your
president, your favourite artist
86. Walk up and down the stair till you get tired. Take a
good bath and go to bed.
87. Sitting in front of an open fire (in winter)
88. Sitting near the harbour and listen to the waves come
to the harbour (if you live close the harbour or the
beach)

22. 89. Instead of playing online games/gadgets, let's take
out the old board games and play with your
parents/friends
90. Have a 'laughing' competition or session every night.
'Laugh until you sleep‘
91. Have a massage session before bed
92. Stand and walk around in circles until you feel dizzy
and fall asleep
93. Count sheeps or dollars
94. Meditate
95. Prepare meals for the next days

23. Attractive Bed

24. 96. Dream Stone and Sleepy Bear
97. Make your bed looks and smells much more
attractive than your computer
98. Have a great partner that makes bedtime more
appealing than the Internet
99. Use scents in your bedroom which makes you feel
relaxed and easier to fall asleep
100. Turn on something like a fan in summer which
makes a constant rhythm which makes you feel more
sleepy
101. Sounds of the rain + chill weather (either real or
fake) makes you feel easier to go to bed

25. Eat to Sleep

26. 102. Have dinner with kinds of food that makes you feel
sleepy
103. Take a sleeping pill
104. Drink herbal tea
105. Chew ice cubes. It first it wakes you up, but the cold
ice burns your heat and soon after that you feel sleepy

27. Disclaimers
 We do not own any pictures shown in this presentation. They are taken
from the Internet for demonstration purpose only.
 This presentation is used as part of the assignment in Creativity
Course, by Team Innovate, 2012.