title: Mimo pillow--an intelligent cushion designed with maternal heart beat vibrations for comforting newborn infants.
abstract: Premature infants are subject to numerous interventions ranging from a simple diaper change to surgery while residing in neonatal intensive care units. These neonates often suffer from pain, distress, and discomfort during the first weeks of their lives. Although pharmacological pain treatment often is available, it cannot always be applied to relieve a neonate from pain or discomfort. This paper describes a nonpharmacological solution, called Mimo, which provides comfort through mediation of a parent's physiological features to the distressed neonate via an intelligent pillow system embedded with sensing and actuating functions. We present the design, the implementation, and the evaluation of the prototype. Clinical tests at Máxima Medical Center in the Netherlands show that among the nine of ten infants who showed discomfort following diaper change, a shorter recovery time to baseline skin conductance analgesimeter values could be measured when the maternal heartbeat vibration in the Mimo was switched ON and in seven of these ten a shorter crying time was measured.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Sidarto Bambang
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Oetomo
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tetteroo
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Versteegh
authors.forename: Thelxi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mamagkaki
authors.forename: Mariana Serras
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Lindy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Janssen
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Meurs
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D006801:Humans; D007224:Infant Care / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D009035:Mothers; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D017156:Photoplethysmography; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013637:Tape Recording; D014732:Vibration / Q000627:therapeutic use*