B2.2 First iteration

1. Insomnia Treatment
Starry Night

2. Introduction
Design Concept
-Introduction of Insomnia
-Solutions
Design Approach
-Target Subject
-Persona
-Image Board
-Bench Marketing
Prototype
-Sketches
-Working Model
Conclution
-Future Process
-Reference

3. Design Concept
To help people with insomnia or sleeping problems reach a mental
peaceful and physical stable stage to fall asleep.
“Research has shown that behavioral interventions alone, or in combination
with cognitive therapy and sleep hygiene, can be used to effectively treat both
primary insomnia and insomnia comorbid with other disorders”
-Reference from Handbook of insomnia

4. Soft Social Support
Breathing Pattern
Mentally
Physically
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“Supportive ties were pos- itively related to sleep quality,
while aversive ties predicted worse sleep quality, associations
that were primarily seen for close relationships. ”
- reference from Social Relationships and Sleep Quality

5. Stress
Physical discomfort
Medicine effect
Problem within ageTemperture
Noises
Light
Environmental Personal
“Insomnia refers to a difficulty in initiating or maintaining sleep at least three nights
per week for at least three months, accompanied by impaired daytime functioning.”
-Reference from Handbook of insomnia
Introduction of Insomnia

6. Solutions
There are several ways to solve personal factors.
Peace
Yoga or stretching your body can make your muscles relax and reach mentally peaceful.
No Stimulations
No food, coffee, tea or cigarette 2 hours before going to sleep can make your blood-sugar level stay stable.
Reference: Handbook of Insomnia, Published by Springer Healthcare Ltd, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, UK.

7. How do designers help people sleep?

8. Design Approach
Thourgh resources from thesis, and target group research we got database.
Sketches and prototype help we to realize this interaction design.

9. Since there are such high percentage of people suffer from sleeping obstacles,
we targeted the university students and young worker as the main group of our product.
And we use a questionaire to collect their experience of sleep problems.
“80% of the sleeping
maladjustment people
NEVER talk to doctors”
-Reference from [Asia Sleep Association, 2003]
Target Group

10. MedicineLifestyle
Projecter Base
Non Projecter Base
Starry Night
Product Positioning
After the benchmarking and analyze the
informations,we had found the position
of Starry Night is located in the middle
between medicine and lifestyle.
It will be a non projecter base product
and we want more interaction with the
users.

11. Hannah
Age
Occupation
Relationship
Location
20
2rd Year Bachelor Law student
Single, traight
Urban city area, Eindhoven
Reasons of insomnia
Stress
Physical discomfort
Environment
Goal Educational
Social
Physical
Brother
Study situation
Perfectionism
Work
Insomnia itself
Stress source
Hannah is an introvert 20 years old female. she has one
sister living with her parents in her hometown. Her older brother
studies in Australia. She really looks up to her brother, since he
is more extrovert and lives in Australia now. Also, she misses him.
In her spare time, she is part of the local student soccer
team.And she likes to watch movies or drink tea with friends in
the evening and read fashion magazines. She lives in a student
house, where she both studies and sleeps. She does not have a
TV in her room, but uses her laptop for homework and relaxation.
“I will continue and improve my life as I’m doing right now.”
Persona

12. Image board

13. Goodnight Biological LED LampDuux Baby Projector
Exlight Aurora Borealis ProjectortAurora Master Ocean
Benchmarking

14. Social bond is an important factors which affect insomnia patients,
so we are working on a way to put this element into our product to
help people feel safe and bonded.
Taptap Breath together
When the insomnia patient feel
lonely and afraid there is no one
like them, they can tap on their phone
or a button and the starry night will
respond by lighting up and show people
who also awake.
Users can see their own breathing performed on the Starry
night by the light up and dark off, which represent Inhale
and exhale.
There are two patterns of breathing, the users ones and
a bigger pattern represent the intergrate of others. When
users try to fit with another pattern, they may feel bonded
and safe, but this pattern is actually been adjusted to fit the
best temple of the users.
Social bond

15. With the starry night system, the dim light fiber can attract patient’s attention but have
no harm for being too bright; With the twinkle of the light fiber, we provide a breathing
pattern which the users can follow and adjust their breath into calm stage.
Conclusion
To create a comfortable environment for relaxing the state of mind and adjust the
breathing pattern, we want to build an abstract focus which can make patients feel
calm and socially bonded.