Sleep like Sleeping Beauty

Arteveldehogeschool's Health and Care domain of expertise and Leadlife are developing an application that, through AI and machine learning optimises your sleep quality. And this with the help of citizens. The application will be able to combine data from eating, exercise and sleep habits to use AI to make predictions around your ideal sleep rhythm. Based on that, you can get personalised suggestions on how to improve your lifestyle. This way, you can increase the quality and quantity of your sleep.

Research theme: Future-proof primary care; Human-centered technology

Field of interest: Health and Care

Duration: 17/04/2023 - 16/04/2024

Improving sleep of Flemings

This project has one goal: improving the sleep of Flemish people. Citizens and, with their consent, healthcare professionals will have access to the data and related personalised sleep advice.

So you finally discover when you go to bed best and get personalised and combined lifestyle and sleep advice to improve your sleep quality and quantity on top of it! No more guessing, that way your cock only crows when it needs to.

Measurement of sleep-wake rhythm

Based on questionnaires and saliva samples from Flemish citizens, we monitor the most important parameter of sleep-wake rhythm: the level of the sleep hormone or melatonin onset (MO). We convert this into wearable data (app) via AI.

Sleep apps and commercial wearables often fail to identify the objective cause and/or often only give too general advice. Supplements, melatonin measurements and sleep medication also do nothing about the cause. Personalised advice does allow you to address the cause.

Funding

This project is funded by AMAI (a collaboration between Scivil (Citizen Science Flanders), Knowledge Centre Data & Society, AI Flanders: building your digital future) and the contribution of Leadlife and Arteveldehogeschool's own resources.

Or to put it another way

Once upon a time... a beautiful sunrise. A rooster crows and you wake up from a scrumptious dream. Ready to start the new day as birds welcome you with their most beautiful morning serenade. Your eyes gently adjust to the light, you stretch and sigh. All ready for the new day.

Reality check*#@! What a night! Just when it feels like the night would start for you, that alarm clock rings. Your inner clock no longer knows what to do and your energy levels literally suck you deeper into the sheets. Against gravity, you have to get out of bed. This is probably going to be another one of those days where concentration, productivity, energy are guaranteed to go below zero.

With this project, the guesswork is done: this way, your cock only crows when it has to.