This episode of Autonomous Health takes a longer-term look at the future of sleep. What can we learn about sleep in extreme environments from astronauts, military pilots, and oil rig workers? Our guest this episode is Dr. Cassie Hilditch, a scientist in the field of sleep countermeasures.
Sleep countermeasures, in simple terms, is discovering approaches to maximize the benefits of sleep in a continuous operating environment, such as military applications. In this episode, we discuss the role of light manipulation in minimizing fatigue, and give examples of how military operators and astronauts prepare for critical professional goals.
Cassie also shares how lessons in sleep countermeasures can apply to everyday consumers and the tens of millions of consumer devices that people use every day. Aerospace innovations have influenced consumer products in every sphere, from jet engines to GPS.
Our discussion then dives into how the sleep research community can keep up with the consumer data generated. One of the core limitations we dive into is performance evaluation and validation for rapidly changing consumer devices against a true sleep lab.
Listen as we brainstorm possible solutions, like creating common standards for consumer healthcare data, and as Cassie shares how this consumer data translates into designing better interventions and actions for all of us.
Mentioned In This Episode:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassie-hilditch-phd-817a1816/
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cassie-Hilditch
- https://hsi.arc.nasa.gov/groups/fatigue/personnel_view.php?personnel_id=1660
About Our Guest:
Dr. Cassie Hilditch is currently working as a Senior Research Associate through San José State University at the Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory of NASA Ames Research Center. She received her post-doctoral training at the Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brown University’s Sleep for Science Research Laboratory. Over her 18-year career in sleep research, Dr. Hilditch has accumulated comprehensive experience in human sleep research, ranging from tightly-controlled inpatient studies to logistically-challenging field studies acros
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