Co-Sleep: Moving Into Couple Sleep
- Irene (Shiyin Zheng)
- Feb 7, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 21, 2019
According to our previous field research, we decided to move further. We brainstormed about the next step and designed a model to demonstrate our thoughts and help us to move into a second round research.
Move "co-" into couple
Based on the findings, We brainstormed about what we wanted to explore next. We connected interesting points to see if there were any new things we ignored.
We found that sleeping next to human got more interesting answers than next to objects, and we agreed on focus "co-" with couple.
Demonstration Model
We did a model to demonstrate the difference between sleeping alone and sleeping together. We tried to show how a couple would affect each other's sleep. We used "up and down" as a metaphor for sleep stages, awake, light sleep, deep sleep and REM. We used "left and right" to show the relationship between the couple.
We built two "rooms" using frames, the left one for a person sleeping alone, the right one for a couple sleeping together. We gave the model a story called "Jack and Jill".
On the left, Jill slept alone because Jack was on a business trip. She felt free enough to turn over, and she did not need to worry about affecting partners. However, she could not fall asleep soon because something was missing. No one would talk with her before sleep. She felt a little upset.
On the right, Jack and Jill were sleeping next to each other. They cuddled a little before sleep but then "nightmare" happened. Jack snored during sleep and that woke Jill up. They went through different "up and down" stages during the whole night and sometimes their movement affected the other one, which gradually caused the them moving away from the other.
Model
The idea was originally inspired by Jing's box idea, where she suggested using coloured gas and show the mixing process. Then I got the idea of using "up and down" to show the different sleep stages couples would go through even at the same time. To make the model look nice, we used a consistent language when choosing materials, trying to make it as less as we can. We finally chose steel sticks and clips to build the frame (without using glue), and making foam inside white coloured sheets to build the beds.
Because we are in lack of couple data, so we decided to conduct a second round research, getting more deeper and focused on sleeping with human partners only. This would be explained in detail in next blog post.
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