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Designing a 30-Day Sleep Study: Choosing the Right Actigraphy Monitoring Devices

Thirty days is the point where device specifications stop being marketing material and start being protocol limits. A fortnight forgives

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When a Light Sensor Becomes a Research Instrument: Understanding Photopic Lux and Melanopic EDI

Lux was built for vision. Circadian research needs a different weighting, and the gap between the two is where a

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Beyond the Sleep Diary: Reconciling Subjective and Objective Sleep Data in Research

Two instruments measuring the same night produce different numbers, and the difference is often larger than researchers expect. Sleep onset

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Melanopic EDI vs. Photopic Lux: What Researchers Need to Know About Wearable Light Measurement

Light-exposure research increasingly depends on measurements collected in real-world settings. Photopic illuminance describes light according to human visual sensitivity, while

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From Paper Logs to Structured Research Data: What Makes a Digital Sleep Diary Useful?

Paper diaries get completed in the waiting room. Everyone in sleep research knows it, and the practice persists because the

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Wearable Light Data Quality: Signal Needs Context

Wearable light data quality depends on context: an expert-built framework pairs auxiliary data with QA/QC to make field light signals
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What Sleep and Light Look Like for Parents of Young Infants

Two weeks of wearable light and sleep monitoring in parents of young infants: fragmented nights, dim daytime light, and high
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Measuring Human Behavior Continuously: The Future of Digital Phenotyping

Healthcare researchers increasingly seek objective methods to understand how behavior changes across days, weeks, and months. Traditional assessments provide snapshots

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Circadian Biomarker Discovery Using Integrated Wearable Sensor Data

How circadian biomarkers are derived from integrated wearable sensor data, and how actigraphy supports rest-activity rhythm research.
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Remote Sleep Research: Decentralized Protocols

Learn how to design a decentralized, remote sleep research protocol using wearable actigraphy, home-based monitoring, and validated data workflows.