Välkommen till en disputation på DSV! Kasper Karlgrens doktorsavhandling handlar om hur ny teknik hjälper människor att övervaka och ”hacka” sin egen sömn.
13 december 2024 presenterar Kasper Karlgren sin doktorsavhandling på Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap (DSV) vid Stockholms universitet. Titeln är ”Tracking and Hacking Sleep: Designing for lived experience through self-tracking”.
Doktorand: Kasper Karlgren, DSV Opponent: David Kirk, Newcastle University, Storbritannien Huvudhandledare: Barry Brown, DSV Handledare: Donald McMillan, DSV
Disputationen genomförs i DSVs lokaler i Kista, med start klockan 13.00. Hitta till DSV
Sammanfattning på engelska
Sleep-tracking technology is built into many available smart technologies and wearables; hence, designing for and with these data requires a broad understanding of the user and their relation to sleep. However, these technologies still focus on traditional 7–9 hours-per-night schedules – overlooking the varied nature of people's sleep – and focus on metrics that are difficult to influence, such as sleep stages, making them unactionable for a large portion of the users.
This dissertation investigates what sleep tracking can do for users who put effort into managing sleep by studying what actions and challenges they already employ. Using qualitative methods and design approaches, I study how people `hack' their sleep, the difficulties that arise from non-traditional sleep patterns, and how sleep technology is used in everyday life.
The findings and contributions of this work include (1) rich descriptions of these participants, in terms of how they share and discuss sleep hacks in online communities, and insights and reflections on the social factors of sleeping outside normal hours; (2) design explorations of how sleep tracking technology could be built to support these practices; and (3) framing self-tracking technology as the design of the self – to design technology that centres on the actions and varying goals and bodies of the users.
In the discussion, I discuss how this work relates the notions of bodies and users in human–computer interaction, how changes in modern work arrangements call for new technology to support the arrangement of sleep and life rhythms, and reflections on the norms and soft paternalism of sleep tracking technologies.
Nyckelord
Human-Computer Interaction, Sleep-tracking, Research for Design
Smarta klockor, aktivitetsarmband och annan mobil teknik följer varje steg vi tar, varje dag. Vi tar dem med oss överallt, även till sovrummet där vi låter dem spåra vår sömn. Det här projektet undersöker hur människor interagerar med teknologi, och hur vi kan ta hjälp av sömntracking för att justera våra sömnscheman – med målet att lösa våra livspussel.
Forskargruppen STIR består av en blandning av teknologer och samhällsvetare. Vi forskar och bygger nya digitala teknologier tillsammans. Vårt arbete ryms inom forskningsämnet människa–datorinteraktion.
