NAME: EKOUO HONORE MOUKOUELLE

THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONICS ON SLEEP

The Context of the Society

As technology has progressed, our relationship with
the night has changed. With widespread use of electric
lights, the night has essentially become optional. But this
is not an ideal perspective for health and well-being.
The nature of the problem (Background to the
problem)
In recent years, the use of electronic devices in the
bedroom has increased dramatically. However, not
much is known at the population level about who uses
technology in the bedroom, what sort of technology is
used, how much is used, and how this use affects sleep.
Now our days we constantly complain of the fact of
felling of being tired the morning after sleep, facts about
our increase in sleep latency (time taken to fall asleep),
about eye pains headache. In this project the aim is to
find that electronics device have the below various
impact on us and hence affects our sleep, though they
are important and useful now our days. So we should
infancies on that the fact that even though we are IT
student or we are the/in android generation but still we
should not be addict to electronics devices. The main
part of my focus and the point of interest will be the
effect of electronics to our sleep.

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How IT can be a solution to the problem described.
An IT solution can be the creation of an app which
help you to Decrease Your Daytime and Night time
Electronics Use: Using electronic devices for long
periods during the day can negatively impact sleep too,
especially among adolescents. Common effects include
shorter sleep duration, longer sleep onset, and more
sleep deficiency. Talk to adults and teenagers about
excessive electronics exposure and, if need be, impose
restrictions on their daily use.
The challenges of using IT as a solution to solve the
problem described
One particular challenge in conducting this type of
research is that individual users may themselves not be
able to recall specific events in granular detail. An
individual user may text for a few minutes, check e-
mails, watch a video, then send additional texts before
going to bed, all within 15-20 minutes. Indeed, it may be
that the only way to accurately capture this data would
be through monitoring applications installed on the
devices themselves. This requires that researchers not
only understand the possible technologies in play, but
they may also need to directly manipulate/measure
them, with the consent of the user.
Conclusion
Despite these challenges, the issue of technology
relative to sleep is an important one. Nearly all adults,
especially young adults, use technology before bed. As
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 the possibilities increase for talking, texting, browsing,
emailing, working, playing, posting, and reading before
bed, and as a portal to information and social networks
becomes an arm’s reach away in the middle of the night,
and as the devices that go “beep” in the night become
more common in the bedroom, it is important for sleep
researchers to understand how these changing patterns
of use affect sleep and, in turn, health and well-being.
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