College of Engineering Unit:
Lavender is a web application that is designed to address the challenges of shift work sleep disorder, which is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder characterized by disturbances in sleep patterns and excessive sleepiness due to working non-traditional hours or rotating shifts. Individuals with SWSD often experience difficulty falling asleep and  maintaining sleep, which can lead to chronic sleep deprivation and impairments in cognitive function and overall well-being. Symptoms typically include insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating. Lavender serves as a bridge between patients and their sleep psychologist provider. By allowing patients to input their daily sleep data into a sleep diary, the application automates the process of data collection and analysis. Lavender also generates optimized sleep schedules tailored to a patients’ work and scheduled activities that allows for combating insomnia and fatigue. Through facilitating easier patient-provider connectivity and streamlining data analysis, Lavender aims to enhance the accuracy and accessibility of sleep statistics such as time in bed, time slept, and frequency of awakenings, ultimately offering a holistic solution to managing shift-work sleep disorder by aiding in both the patient and provider sides.
