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Lullaby: Environmental Sensing For Sleep Self-Improvement

We are developing a system to help users improve the quality of their sleep by monitoring environmental factors that disrupt sleep and providing feedback. This system, called Lullaby, has several design goals. Lullaby’s sensor suite should be practical for deployment into bedrooms: it must be unobtrusive, inexpensive, and respect users’ privacy in this sensitive context. Lullaby should identify...

Lullaby, Chorale, or Hurdy-gurdy Tune?

Lullaby: Capturing the Unconscious in the Sleep Environment

Research has shown that environmental factors can be one of the major causes of poor sleep quality and interrupted sleep [8], which can contribute to daytime sleepiness and fatigue. In particular, a room that is too warm [11], has improper lighting [10], or is noisy [1] can have a negative impact on sleep. While some of these environmental factors are observable, others may be subtle. Individua...

The Effect of Recorded Mum's Lullaby and Brahm’s Lullaby on Oxygen Saturation in Preterm Infants: a Randomized Double-Blind Clinical Trial

INTRODUCTION Music stimulation has been shown to provide significant benefits to preterm infants. Thus the aim of this study was determine the effect of recorded mum's lullaby and Brahm's lullaby on oxygen saturation in preterm infants. METHODS This double-blind randomized controlled trial was carried out on 66 premature newborns with the postnatal age of ≥3 days and weight ≤ 2800 grams at Ta...

Song-type matching between neighbouring song sparrows.

In our study population, neighbouring song sparrows typically share two or more of their 6-10 song types. In an earlier experiment, we found that established neighbours typically reply to playback of neighbour-shared song with a different song they share with that neighbour ('repertoire matching'), rather than with the same song ('type matching') or with a nonshared song. In the present experim...