Mobile Monitoring and Feedback for Improving Sleep

After 12 years in active conflicts, the U.S. army is facing unprecedented challenges in maintaining the readiness and resilience of its soldiers. To address these challenges, the U.S. Army has created a Readiness and Resilience Campaign and defined the Performance Triad. we propose to augment this approach by creating and providing tools, in the form of mobile apps, for monitoring and providing feedback on all aspects of the triad; focusing initially on sleep and activity but including some components of nutrition. In this approach, we intend to use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and mobile devices to provide soldiers, as well as their leaders and caregivers, with insight as to how their habits and behaviors within the framework of the Performance Triad are affecting their readiness and resilience while at the same time providing feedback as to how to improve. Our approach centers on enabling the individual while providing the ability for authorized entities (physicians, researchers, and/or leaders) to assist the individual in addressing their specific challenges. All the applications developed under this project will have default configurations to enable out-of-the-box functionality but will also be configurable to deliver data, in a HIPAA compliant way, to other entities.