BuddyClock

BuddyClock is a tool for helping promote awareness of sleep habits within a social network. Users of BuddyClock can share their sleeping status based on their alarm clock settings (e.g., awake, asleep, or snoozing) with other members of their group. We evaluated BuddyClock with 5 different social networks and found that it helped increase a sense of social awareness and connectedness, as well as an increased interest in tracking sleep habits over time. BuddyClock was published at CSCW 2008.

BuddyClock on a bedside table BuddyClock interface shows the sleeping status of three friends within a social network

People

Sunyoung Kim
Gregory Abowd
Shwetak Patel
Julie Kientz

Publication

  • Kim, S., Kientz, J. A., Patel, S. N., & Abowd, G. D. (2008, November). Are you sleeping?: sharing portrayed sleeping status within a social network. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 619-628). ACM.