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NANIT LAB RESEARCH

Abstracts

Pediatric Health & Wellness

A sensorless solution for monitoring infant breathing rate

Validation results on the performance of Breathing Motion Monitoring algorithm against a validated ground truth device (GT) to accurately measure minute by minute BR.
Pediatric Health & Wellness

The impact of child illness on working parents

There have been few studies quantifying the impact of the tripledemic on parental mental health and work-life balance. Understanding these impacts is essential for developing targeted interventions...
Pediatric Health & Wellness

A Promising App-Based Torticollis Awareness & Prevention Intervention

The aim of this study was to test the feasibility of an app-based intervention for 1) increasing parents’ awareness of torticollis and 2) facilitating changes in parents’ behavior related to torti...
Pediatric Health & Wellness

Extended tummy time is associated with longer nighttime sleep duration in 4-5 months old infants.

In our study, we investigate whether the amount of tummy time is associated with sleep in infants 4-5 months of age. 
Pediatric Health & Wellness

Movement during nighttime wake episodes reflects the onset of crawling and walking

Infants moved more and expressed greater diversity in movements during WEPs when they reached new locomotor milestones. We also demonstrated that Nanit, a commercially available video baby monitor,...
Pediatric Health & Wellness

First Steps: Using the Nanit baby monitor to classify nocturnal infant movements

Using movement as a window into psychological development, the current study tests the feasibility of manually coding motor behaviors using Nanit video baby monitoring technology to qualify and qua...
Pediatric Health & Wellness

Video from the Crib: Using the Nanit Home Baby Monitoring System to Explore the Relation Between Motor Development and Sleep in Infancy

One objective was to examine sleep directly using video-based sleep analysis for behavioral evidence that would speak to the increase in night wakings associated with motor skill acquisition. Anoth...

Peer-Reviewed Published Studies

Pediatric Health & Wellness

Does your baby have a sleep problem? Auto-videosomnography and parent-reported correlates of perceived infant sleep problems

This study examined which objective infant sleep measures and parent factors are most strongly associated with perceived infant sleep problems, and whether these associations differed by parent gen...
Pediatric Health & Wellness

Differences in Infant and Parental Sleep and Sleeping Location in a Multi-National Study

Investigated cross-country differences in infant and maternal sleep across Korea, the U.S.A. and Australia.
Pediatric Health & Wellness

Variability of bedtime in infancy and its relationship to parent-reported and auto-videosomnography sleep metrics

This study examines associations between bedtime variability, sleep duration, nighttime awakenings, parental interventions, bedtime difficulties, and overall sleep quality in children aged 4–24 mon...

About Nanit Lab

We've put together a cutting-edge think tank of scientists, engineers, physicians, academic experts, and thought leaders to develop best-in-class research among three primary pillars: Sleep Health, Postpartum Anxiety & Depression, and Pediatric Health and Wellness.