Measuring sleep used to be the domain of the sleep laboratory, but new technologies allow sleep to be measured at home. How well do new devices work? What about consumer devices such as FitBit compared to actigraphy that has been used by sleep researchers for years? Should you be measuring your sleep? Does it help to improve sleep? With the help of James Slater from Sleep and Performance Analytics we discuss sleep measurement and the use of sleep trackers.

Dr Moira Junge (Health Psychologist) and Dr David Cunnington (Sleep Physician) host the monthly podcast, Sleep Talk, talking all things sleep.

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Audio Timeline:

• 00:00 - 01:45 Introduction
• 01:45 - 05:16 What's news in sleep?
  • 01:45 -  02:45 Sleep technology
  • 02:45 -  03:38 Sleeping in the heat
  •  03:38 - 05:03 Research on parasomnias and sleep paralysis
• 05:03 -  34:17 Theme - Sleep Trackers. Discussion with James Slater
  • 05:03 - 24:30 Discussion on sleep trackers and sleep measurement
  • 24:30 - 30:12 What are the psychological aspects of measuring sleep?
  • 30:12 - 31:35 The future of sleep trackers
  • 31:35 - 33:20 Clinical actigraphy service
  • 33:20 - 33:50 More information on sleep trackers
• 33:50- 35:27 Clinical tip of the month - Self-monitoring and self-awareness is only part of behaviour change
• 35:27 - 37:58 Pick of the month:
  • 35:27 - 36:28 David - Sleepingtime.org
  • 36:28 - 38:58 Moira - Clean sleeping: A trend for 2017?
  • 38:58 - 40:46 James - Time use and productivity
• 40:46 - 41:32 Sign off

Next episode: March 6th 2017

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• Good Sleep: It's not about the night - SleepHub
• Sleep technology at CES - radio interview on 774AM
• Sleeping in the heat - SleepHub
• Sleeping in the heat - SBS online
• Research study on sleep walking and sleep eating - Monash University study
• Clinical actigraphy service - Sleep and Performance Analytics
• What sleep trackers are available? - SleepHub
• Using a sleep tracker - Sleephub audio interview
• Insights on sleep from using a sleep tracker - A Current Affair TV story
• Guidelines for the use of actigraphy - Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine
• Sleepingtime.org - check people's sleeping hours based on their Twitter posts
• The life changing magic of tidying up - Book by Marie Kondo
• Clean sleeping: A trend for 2017? - The New Daily
• Prof Leon Lack - Flinders University
• Time use and productivity: The wage returns to sleep - Article by Matthew Gibson & Jeffery Shrader
• Sleep and daylight savings - Jawbone blog

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