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Any chance of a shoutbox or chat facility? so those up in the wee hours can have talk
sleepio diary doesn’t have a way to register if one gets out of bed – I allways get up if I have been lying awake too long…
Andy I completely agree…although I would prefer to be asleep lol
when you get e mail notifications, there should be more information in the e mails, i.e who the message is in response to, etc.
Re: Progress towards your goals. The percentages given are obviously calculated in comparison to the previous sessions responses. Which means that once I’ve ticked the best answers to each question, there’s no way to improve, and the best percentage I can hope for each subsequent week is 0%. I’m a competitive individual, and don’t like seeing 0%! Or even worse, a negative score if I’ve had a ‘blip’, even though an improvement on session 1. I suggest that each weeks answers should be compared to those from session 1, rather than the previous week?
I initially agreed with this, but then thought that the effect would be that on getting up I would be recording the fact, so switching on the computer, or at the very least writing the fact down…and I suspect all this admin would wake me further. So maybe best not?
I think one thing missing from the Sleepio course is advice on transiting between night shift to day shift and back. While I understand there are many variations of a night shift work hours it would be great if some advice could be offered.
I received an email from Rosie offering me the opportunity to provide feedback on Sleepio. While I have no problems taking part in such events I have a rule never to use links provided within emails. My reasoning behind this self-imposed rule is down to the fact there are too many fake emails going around that you can never be sure who truly sent it.
My suggestion is that all surveys are accessed via a link within the Sleepio web site. That way be can be happy that it is really from the Prof or someone acting on his behalf. Till then I will not be taking part in such research, sorry.
Hi Othalian,
Thanks for your suggestion – I’ve submitted your request for an article on the subject of shift-work to our experts. They’ve got a long list of articles to review at the moment but look out for your suggestion in the list of articles.
Whilst we really value the opportunity to get feedback from our members it is, of course, completely your choice whether or not to fill the form out.
A little thing, have a ‘remember me’ function (a box to tick etc) so that you can stay signed in if you wish.
I am confused as to why members have to click on Community to find their profile.
My suggestion is to add an extra tab to the right of the Community tab for members to gain direct access to their profile.
This would be very simple to implement and wouldn’t affect the over all aesthetics of the site.
Is it possible to have an app made in order to make updating the sleep diary easier. I’m not always on the computer but do use my iPad quite a bit. Anything that makes doing the course a bit easier is surely one less thing to occupy our tired minds.
I may have missed it if it is there and if so apologies. I would really like an idiots guid to the best use of the website could be things to do daily like diary and check posts. Things to do weekly – session and Expert forum. Then some hints and tips about how as you progress more seems to become available to us on the website. Also encourage us to allocate time to trawling thhrough back posts and expert sessions.
On a different subject I was having problems getting the diary to load once completed and I to begin with had to close it because it kept telling me incomplete or error. Last few mornings I have done ‘when did you go to bed’ followed by ‘when did you get up’ then I have gone back and filled in the other questions and that seems to work. So I wonder could these two questions be together and then that would calculate the first circle.
Thaks for all the work and creativity and technical knowledge that has already gone into making this a brilliant programme and website.
What about a list of the possible topics that are on the waiting list for the experts to write for people to vote on as to which ones get written next.
All of the professionals who will deal with sleep problems such as IAPT workers, nurses, doctors etc, all started out as student. What about a deal/discount for student, say around exam time.
Is there any point giving a discount/ deal on a sleep course for someone studying an exam? After all this is only for a short period of time and then they will naturally return to their normal sleep pattern. Also, Students have very limited funds and would probably prefer to spend any money they have on more “fluid” interests. ;-)
Fair point, just thinking out loud really. I remember being a student…. ;o)
could we have the extra 15 minutes sleep ‘reward’ as soon as we have done a week of 90% sleep efficiency and not wait for the next session with the prof
I would like yo see an option NOT to accept the additional 15 minutes Prof offers during his session at the end of a week. I find that quite often while I am able to reach the sleep efficiency the actual hours I sleep are far less than my sleep windows suggests. So offering me or anyone else the opportunity to increase their sleep window is pointless until we actually achieve it.
Hi sleepy60, While your suggestion of “rewarding” those who attain 90% sleep efficiency looks on the face of it a great idea especially when you are on sleep restrictions. I feel however that it isn’t a viable option. What would you do if the next day you didn’t reach your 90% sleep efficiency, which is very possible? Do you reduce it again? How far do you reduce it by? You could end up like the waves on the ocean going up and down and your sleep quality would start do drop I suspect.
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