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Inaccurate sleep tracking for wakefulness events

💚 healthproduct problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 3/5

A Sleep Cycle user reports that the app fails to accurately detect periods of wakefulness caused by hot flashes, incorrectly categorizing them as deep sleep or REM sleep.

Who's affected: A user experiencing sleep disturbances due to hot flashes.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. Develop a companion app feature that allows users to manually tag specific physical symptoms like hot flashes to calibrate sleep stage detection.
  2. Create a wearable integration plugin that uses heart rate variability and skin temperature sensors to improve wakefulness detection accuracy.
  3. Build a validation dashboard that compares app-generated sleep data against user-inputted manual logs to identify and report tracking discrepancies.
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Real voices

“the app was so far off as to show I was in deep sleep or REM when I was fully awake”

Source: App Store review: sleep-cycle

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