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ArticleScientific reports2023

A comprehensive study on the efficacy of a wearable sleep aid device featuring closed-loop real-time acoustic stimulation.

Anh Nguyen, Galen Pogoncheff, Ban Xuan Dong, Nam Bui, Hoang Truong, Nhat Pham, Linh Nguyen, Hoang Nguyen-Huu, Khue Bui-Diem, Quan Vu-Tran-Thien and 3 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Anh NguyenDepartment of Computer Science, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA. anh.nguyen@umontana.edu.
Galen PogoncheffEarable Inc., Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.
Ban Xuan DongEarable Inc., Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.
Nam BuiDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, 80204, USA.
Hoang TruongDepartment of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.
Nhat PhamSchool of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 4AG, UK.
Linh NguyenEarable Inc., Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.
Hoang Nguyen-HuuUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Khue Bui-DiemUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Quan Vu-Tran-ThienUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Sy Duong-QuyLam Dong Medical College, Da Lat City, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam.
Sangtae HaEarable Inc., Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.
Tam VuEarable Inc., Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.
Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University · VNUniversity of Colorado Boulder · USCardiff University · GBPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · USUniversity of Montana · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Difficulty falling asleep is one of the typical insomnia symptoms. However, intervention therapies available nowadays, ranging from pharmaceutical to hi-tech tailored solutions, remain ineffective due to their lack of precise real-time sleep tracking, in-time feedback on the therapies, and an ability to keep people asleep during the night. This paper aims to enhance the efficacy of such an intervention by proposing a novel sleep aid system that can sense multiple physiological signals continuously and simultaneously control auditory stimulation to evoke appropriate brain responses for fast sleep promotion. The system, a lightweight, comfortable, and user-friendly headband, employs a comprehensive set of algorithms and dedicated own-designed audio stimuli. Compared to the gold-standard device in 883 sleep studies on 377 subjects, the proposed system achieves (1) a strong correlation (0.89 ± 0.03) between the physiological signals acquired by ours and those from the gold-standard PSG, (2) an 87.8% agreement on automatic sleep scoring with the consensus scored by sleep technicians, and (3) a successful non-pharmacological real-time stimulation to shorten the duration of sleep falling by 24.1 min. Conclusively, our solution exceeds existing ones in promoting fast falling asleep, tracking sleep state accurately, and achieving high social acceptance through a reliable large-scale evaluation.

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Sleep Initiation and Maintenance DisordersWearable Electronic DevicesAcoustic StimulationHumansPolysomnographySleep

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PMID37845236
PMCPMC10579321
OpenAlexW4387668984

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