| Title |
Evaluation of Thermal Comfort during Sleeping in Summer |
| Authors |
금종수(Jong-Soo Kum) ; 김동규(Dong-Gyu Kim) ; 박종일(Jong-Il Park) |
| Keywords |
쾌적수면 ; 수면효율 ; 수면단계 Comfort sleep ; Sleep efficiency ; Sleep stage |
| Abstract |
This study was performed to evaluate sleep efficiencies and conditions for comfortable sleep based on the analysis of sleep efficiency and MST under four thermals conditions(22℃, 24℃, 26℃, 30℃). Five female subjects who have similar life cycle and sleep patterns were participated for the sleep experiment. Their age was from 20 to 22 years old. They were healthy, and had regular sleep with consistent bed and wakeup time. It was checked whether they had a good sleep before the night of experiment. Experiments were performed in an environmental chamber using thermo-hygrostat. The physiological signal (EEG) for sleep stage were obtained from C3-A2 and C4-A1 electrode sites. Sleep stages were classified, then SWS latency and SWS/TST were calculated for the evaluation for sleep efficiencies on thermal conditions. As results, mean skin temperature for comfort sleeping was 34.5∼35.4℃. Considering sleep efficiency and mean skin temperature, indoor room temperature of upper limit was 28.1℃. |