What is it about?
This paper presents a study whose objective was to research the human interaction with postural behaviors during sleep in the residences' bedrooms of male air force military during the periods in which the subjects were asleep, awake, out of bed, doing activities, using a pillow in different time periods and with ecological validation with observation method and Visual Analogical Scale (VAS).
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Why is it important?
The behavioral and postural habits and sleep rhythm of air force military change depending on the specialty work at the airbase or other types of events but we did not find anything in the literature to analyze and evaluate this behavior through sleep disorders. Perhaps this is related to the fact that the evaluation of this behavior is complex and the observation of these postural behaviors in the environmental context is needed. However the observation methodology based on ISEE software (Filgueiras, Rebelo and Moreira da Silva, 2012) allows the classification and registration of postural behaviors for long periods of time and can be applied in this context.
Perspectives
Findings of this study allow suggesting what graphical interface designers must seek as new strategies and solutions for behavior change in posture in bed, exploring other peripheral equipment for sleep position; or, at least, to improve the posture of the participants when using the number and the placement of the pillow in bed and if these Ergonomic changes can influence the reduction in back pain indications.
Professor Gustavo Desouzart
Piaget Institute of Viseu
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This page is a summary of: Human-Bed Interaction: A Methodology and Tool to Measure Postural Behavior during Sleep of the Air Force Military, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07635-5_63.
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