期刊刊名：科技學刊－人文社會類 　 卷期：22卷2期

篇名出版日期：2013年12月1日

作者：蔡登傳,陳小琳,Dengchuan Cai, Hsiao-Lin Chen

語言：English

關鍵字：sleep duration, rotation frequency, design guidelines,睡眠時間,翻轉頻率,設計指南

被點閱次數：12次

閱讀時間：295sec

摘要：
High quality sleep is essential to human body. A suitable pillow can provide appropriate support and get a high quality sleep. The study aims to investigate the natural positions during sleep and provide guidelines for pillow design. Thirty subjects with age ranges from 17 to 36 years participated in the study for sleep position observation. An infrared video was used to record the positions of head and neck during sleep. The software the Noldus Observer V. 4.1 was used to observe and analyze the sleep positions. The results showed that the proportions of the four sleep positions, supine, left lateral, right lateral, and prone were 60%, 22%, 17%, and 1%, respectively. This indicated that the lateral positions occupied about 40% of total sleep duration and required to pay attention to. The observation results illustrated when the participants slept in the supine position, their necks were bent forward, whereas when they slept in the lateral positions, the participants often placed their arm under the head. This indicated that the current pillows were too high for the supine position and too low for lateral positions. Furthermore, the location of head was far from the center of the pillow. This indicated that the pillow width was too narrow to the participants. The design guidelines were then established according to the results. The pillow height for lateral positions should be higher than for supine position. More, the pillow width should be enlarged.

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