Expertise: Sleep Assessment

SAM3 Expertise Areas: Sleep Assessment

Sleep is important for health and well-being. The assessment of sleep and issues that affect sleep is an area of extensive research by SAM3 researchers.

Sleep assessment

Bed occupancy and bed exit assessment
Restlessness during sleep
Breathing assessment (respiration rate, apnea etc)
Wandering

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Did you know sleep apnea affects nearly 1 billion adults worldwide? It disrupts breathing, fragments sleep, and raises risk for heart disease, diabetes, and cognitive …

Thomas N, Chimehi B, Lariviere-Chartier J, Knoefel F, Beattie Z, Steele J, Miller L, Wallace B. Strengths and Limitations of using Different Sensor Technologies to Assess Clinical Outcomes In Dyadic Care”. Innov Aging. 2024 Dec 31;8(Suppl 1):434.

Stewart, Matthew, Caitlin Higginson, Julien Lariviere-Chartier, Elliott Lee, James Green, Rafik Goubran, Frank Knoefel, and Rebecca Robillard. “Classification of Central and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography and Convolutional Neural Networks.” In 2024 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2024.

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Bahareh Chimehi, Julien Larivière-Chartier, Bruce Wallace, Zachary Beattie, Laura Ault, Lyndsey Miller, Joel Steele, Neil Thomas, Sensor Assessment of Time in Bed on Caregiver Burden for Person Living with Cognitive Impairment, IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements (MeMeA) 2024, 2024

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L. Ault, B. Wallace, S. Makhail, F. Knoefel, R. Goubran, N. Thomas, J. Yang, “Observations and testing of the Tochtech Sleepsense bed sensor in a retirement community and lab setting”, AGE-WELL AGM, 2023.

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Supportive Smart Homes: Their Role in Aging in Place By: Frank Knoefel, Bruce Wallace, Neil Thomas, Heidi Sveistrup, Rafik Goubran, Christine L. Laurin Our book …

Cohen-McFarlane, M., Bennett, S., Wallace, B., Goubran, R. Knoefel, F., “Bed-based Health Monitoring using Pressure Sensitive Technology: A Review”, IEEE Instrumentation Measurement Magazine, April 2021.

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B. Wallace, F. Knoefel, R. Goubran, J. Kaye, N. Thomas, “Comparison of Bed-Sensors for Nocturnal Behaviour Assessment”, The Twelfth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine (eTELEMED 2020), 2020.

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B. Wallace, L. Ault, J. Larivière-Chartier, R. Goubran, F. Knoefel, “Vital Sign and Well-being Assessment Using Bed Based Sensing”. 12th World Conference of Gerontechnology 2020.

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H. Azimi, H. Liu, M. Bilodeau, B. Wallace, M. Bouchard, R. Goubran, F. Knoefel, “Cloud Processing of Bed Pressure Sensor Data to Detect Sleep Apnea Events”, 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), 2020.

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Valech, N., Knoefel, F., Rasquinha, D., Goubran, R., Kennedy, S., Ludwig, C., Wallace, B., Ross, M., Toonders, B., Nasser ElHarake, T., “Can monitoring technology help dementia caregivers sleep better?”, 2017 Humanizing Health Care Conference, 2017.