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Doplor Sleep Sleep Monitoring Mobile Application by Yiling Liu Wins the A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
Yiling Liu honored for mobile technologies, applications and software design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Doplor Sleep Sleep Monitoring Mobile Application by Yiling Liu, designed for Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Doplor Sleep Sleep Monitoring Mobile Application
Doplor Sleep is a sleep monitoring application for hospital use. The application records environmental sounds with the microphone of a smartphone. Algorithms then classify each sound into categories such as medical alarms, speech, incidental sounds and snoring. Sleep data is collected from a connected sleep tracker and combined with the sound data in a daily report. Simple illustrations show sound levels and sleep stages on one timeline. The aim is to make patients and medical staff aware of noise as a cause of poor sleep in hospitals.
About Yiling Liu
As a product designer and researcher with full autonomy and initiative, I am highly motivated and have a track record in socially impactful projects, such as healthcare, bring widespread knowledge, and am ready to embrace challenges and include social responsibilities to develop as a design engineer. Currently, I am working on design research for sound problems in the hospital, and finding correlations between sleep arousals and sound disturbances. Soon I will become an interaction designer in a technical company. I hope to make use of my design and engineering knowledge and skills to contribute to the real problems of society.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yiling Liu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Award
The A' Mobile Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good design in mobile industry by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to mobile designers, application developers, software engineers and user interface designers from all countries. Entries typically include smartphones, tablets, wearables, mobile applications, mobile games and mobile software. Awarded mobile designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/mobile
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/114626
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/114626
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!114626
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/292929
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.yilingliustudio.com/doplor-sleep
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Doplor Sleep Sleep Monitoring Mobile Application
- Function
- Sleep Monitoring Mobile Application
- Category
- Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Light Steel Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Sea Green, Dark Slate Blue and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yiling Liu
- Country
- Netherlands
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #114626
Credits
- Team
- Elif Özcan, Jered Vroon and Daan Kamphuis
- Image Credits
- Illustrator Yiling Liu, Doplor Sleep Mockup, 2020.; Illustrator Yiling Liu, Doplor Sleep Phone Mockup, 2020.; Illustrator Yiling Liu, Doplor Sleep Tablet Mockup, 2020.; Creator Yiling Liu, Doplor Sleep Phone Mockup, 2020.; Creator Yiling Liu, Doplor Sleep Phone Mockup, 2020. Video Credits: Creator Yiling Liu, Doplor Sleep Showcase, 2020
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Doplor Sleep is a bedtime monitoring application that provides insights into sound disturbances in the hospital. It captures the environmental sounds using the microphone of the smartphone, and the implemented algorithms directed classify the data recorded into different sound source categories, such as medical alarms, speech, incidental sounds, and snoring sounds. Doplor sleep is connected with the Fitbit sleep tracker and retrieves data from Fitbit API to form daily sleep-sound quality reports.
- Inspiration
- Sleep deprivation caused by environmental factors can be fatal to critically ill patients. For example, various noises caused by false medical alarms, activities of hospital staff, conversations, etc. can cause delirium in patients with brain diseases. When it happens, patients are in a state of mental confusion and emotional disruption, which prolongs their hospital stay and, like a vicious circle, disturbs the rest of the other patients. A first-step solution can be creating awareness.
- Research
- Recently in the Netherlands, researchers have found that sleep duration and quality were suboptimal in the hospital. Evidence proved that many modifiable hospital-related factors negatively associated with patients' sleep (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2018). The sound factor is the most significant sleep disturbance in the hospital. In this graduation project, collaborating with Reiner de Graaf hospital and Critical Alarms lab, an information exchange the system was proposed to raise awareness of sound as sleep disturbance. The system captures the sound-producing events and visualizes them with visually attractive graphics. In this system, we use the smartphone as the sound captor.
- Challenge
- The first challenge is how to design a sound classification algorithm that could accurately classify the sounds of the hospital. The second one is to investigate how can we present the sound data and sleep data on the same timeline in a user-friendly way.
- Realization and Technology
- The whole system is built with the Android Studio IDE and used the Fitbit API for retrieving sleep data.
- Operation and Interaction
- Before going to bed, the user presses the ship-icon button to start recording the environmental sounds. The next morning, the user presses the ship-icon again to stop recording. Then a sleep summary page occurs with information displayed such as sleep quality and sound quality. By Swiping to the left, the next screen occurs and the user sees more details about sees the presence of sounds (loudness levels and classifications) and sleep stages (wake, Light sleep, REM, and Deep sleep) during the whole by moving the boat forward along the river. Here we used boats as a time indicator and a representation of the sleeper, and the river indicating the timeline.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2020 and ends in October 2020 in Delft, the Netherlands.
- Specifications
- The mobile application currently operates on Android devices, such as Android phones and devices.
- Keywords
- Soundscape, Sleep, Sleep hygiene, Sleep quality, Hospital, sleep deprivation.
