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Appropriate sleep patterns are essential for health, efficiency and balanced emotional state. While sleep-related problems are rigorously studied in medical and psychological sciences, there is a gap when it comes to research into the design of Information Systems (IS) for health interventions. This particular gap provides a unique opportunity to instigate research into this all-important direction. We have designed a web-based persuasive system, Soothing Sleep, which we envisage would help people improve their sleep behaviors gradually. The system draws its functionalities from the Persuasive Systems Design (PSD) model and socio-psychological theories are utilized as the background for the research setting. At present, we have implemented selected persuasive design features, i.e. reduction, tunneling, self-monitoring, reminders, rehearsal and social learning. We acknowledge that addressing sleep-deprivation as research domain is a perplexing task. Nevertheless we are poised that persuasive systems could play a significant role in bringing awareness among people and lead to improved sleeping habits. The paper provides design implications for persuasive systems.
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Langrial, S., Oinas-Kukkonen, H., Wang, S. (2012). Design of a Web-Based Information System for Sleep Deprivation – A Trial Study. In: Eriksson-Backa, K., Luoma, A., Krook, E. (eds) Exploring the Abyss of Inequalities. WIS 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 313. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32850-3_4
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