Feel Good

Designing a sound experience to reduce stress and optimize sleep

Master thesis (2020)

Authors

M. Bereket Industrial Design Engineering

Contributors

Marieke H. Sonneveld Human Factors (mentor)
E Ozcan Form and Experience (graduation committee member)
Julien Latul Philips (coach)
Faculty
Industrial Design Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering
Copyright: © 2020 Mert Bereket
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Published Date

22-06-2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

Abstract

Sleep is a vital restoration mechanism for our health and well-being. Deficiency in sleep can cause physical and mental health problems and reduced quality of life. How well we sleep is closely related to our behavior, and day to day stress can immensely influence sleep quality. Sound and music, on the other hand, is a powerful way to influence human emotions, reduce anxiety, and improve the quality of sleep. Feel Good is a personalized sound experience, designed to reduce stress and induce sleep. It steers the listener’s thoughts to a positive reflection state to prepare the mind and body to fall asleep in contentment. Feel Good’s ever changing layers of sounds are orchestrated by monitoring physiological and environmental data and curates a listening experience made with the listener’s “feel good” moments. Nevertheless, it suggests to improve the quality of sleep by reducing sleep onset latency, sleep fragmentation, and prolonging deep sleep. This research holds an interdisciplinary approach to investigate sleep influencing behavioral factors, stress coping orientations, and sounds in an attempt to bring a sound driven technology to optimize sleep and improve well being in the consumer electronics market.