Clockwork supports the everyday lives of middle-aged to older shift workers, enabling them to improve their circadian rhythms
Main Goals
- Understand the challenges and issues of shift workers.
- Co-design tools that enable light therapy interventions.
- Co-design tools that support the self-awareness and self-reflection.
- Evaluate the developed tools with shift workers.
Smart badge and smartphone application
Smart lamp
Analysis system for specialists
Smart badge and smartphone application
Clockwork is developing a smart badge and a smartphone application for shift workers. The smart badge will collect data about the movement activity and light exposure while at work, and the smartphone will sense the activity of users, especially while at home and in everyday life. The smartphone app will also enable users to self-report their shift schedules, and other relevant data, to get a picture of their days.
The collected data will be presented to the users so that they can be aware of their body and rhythms, and reflect about their work and lifestyle. Furthermore, users may also receive recommendations from healthcare professionals specialized in shifts or sleep.
Smart Lamp
The consortium is proposing a Smart Lamp that can help users becoming more alert or sleepy. The Lamp will influence the circadian rhythms of sleep workers, by controlling the condition that can best synchronize sleep schedules - the light. The Clockwork system will makes recommendations to use the Smart Lamp
Clockwork box
The consortium is developing a device for collecting environmental data, which will be capable of measuring light, noise, and temperature. This data will be used by professionals to analyse the quality of workers' environment.
Analysis system for specialists
The consortium is developing an application for sleep specialists and health and safety technicians. These professionals will be able to analyse the activity and sleep data of shift workers, to detect early issues before they become more problematic.
