Clockwise
Inconsistent patterns of light and sleep in a shift worker’s routine cause a misalignment of the body’s internal sense of time relative to working hours. ClockWise is a wearable device that connects users to the natural mechanisms that can calibrate and alter the body clock, empowering shift workers to optimise their sleep, work, and play for each day or night.
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Shiftwork underpins critical services in society, yet individuals exposed to this working pattern are often ignorant or dismissive of both the long term health effects and influence on workplace performance. Clockwise connects its users to critical body clock information moving mindsets from passive denial to active engagement.
FORESIGHT
Monitors circadian rhythms to help shift workers understand their body’s energy, digestion and sleep patterns enabling them to better manage their health, relationships and career.
AUGMENTATION
Device identifies peaks in the circadian rhythm when bright light can be used to accelerate the body clock’s calibration to a new routine.
REFLECTION
Enables shift workers to better understand their body clock through the app. It translates feedback and insights allowing the shift worker to create personalised plans for future shifts.
DESIGN PROCESS
Design Drawing
Iterative sketching to develop the wearable’s form.
UI Experiments
Developing UI based on 12-hour clock face to intuitively communicate body clock to real time desynchrony.
Final Prototype
After building a variety of Lo-Fi prototypes and testing user interactions, a 1:1 scale 3D printed prototype was produced.
This version of ClockWise was completed as part of an individual project at Design & Innovation (BEng) and displayed at This Is War, Goldsmiths design degree show in London, 2013. Clockwise is still under development. If you are interested in collaborating to develop CW further, please get in touch.
