Exploring profiling and personalisation in sleep music design: Towards conceptualising musical sleep aids for hospital use

Music as a low-cost sleep aid is a promising way to improve the sleep quality of people. However, most available sleep music playlists are limited to generic, soothing songs, which do not take in account personalisation. In collaboration with the Neurology Department of the Reinier de Graaf hospital (Delft, The Netherlands), we explored a...

Sleep in your personalized sonic dreamscape: A profile-based modular music system for personalized sleep experiences in general wards

Hospitalized patients were found to sleep significantly worse in the hospital than at home. The lack of quality sleep can cause serious health problems and affect patients’ health recovery. Music as a low-cost sleep aid is a promising way to improve patients’ sleep. However, most available sleep music playlists are limited to generic, soothing...