隨著人類的發展、科技的進步，人類的睡眠品質越來越受到重視，許多睡眠 相關的產品也孕育而生。如果晚上沒有足夠品質好的睡眠，除了白天會精神不濟、 專注力及記憶力下降、情緒低落外，也會降低生活品質。由於現代社會環境的運作 與生活步調及壓力相對增加，造成睡眠的品質嚴重受影響，而一個好的枕頭可以有 效改善生理狀況，進而提升睡眠品質。但是就枕頭相關設計來看，仍有許多需要考 量顧及的地方。影響睡眠的眾多因素中，熱舒適性為關鍵性因素，而頭部溼度直接 影響熱舒適性。人的皮膚透過流汗來調節生理狀況，而在汗水蒸發的過程中，會帶 走熱能，導致皮膚溫度急速下降造成寒蟬效應，進而影響熱舒適性。而枕頭的設計 可以提升人在不同溼度狀況下的熱舒適性。目前枕頭多專注於支撐設計以提升睡眠 品質，透過量測頭部受壓為主軸，產品主要以枕頭軟硬度的方式呈現,而較少在於探 討睡眠過程中頭部溼度與睡眠系統之關聯性。本研究秉持以人為本的核心理念，透 過調整睡眠中溼度以提升睡眠舒適性之為主軸，從體溫調節、皮膚溼度變化、睡眠 中的微氣候、人與睡眠系統之間的互動切入，考慮睡眠中人的行為、習慣及生理變 化，目標為發展出從外在、即時的輔助方式之睡眠輔助系統，不但能在睡眠中提供 輔助，也能提高睡眠品質。

With human development and technological advances, human beings’ quality of sleep has more and more attention, and many sleep-related products are born out. Insufficient good quality of sleeps at night lead to excessive daytime sleepiness, memory and attention problems and lowered quality of life. The increase of pressure under the pace of life in modern society causes effect of sleep quality. There are many points to considerate of today’s pillow. Among many factors affecting sleep, thermal comfort is the key factor, and skin moisture directly affects thermal comfort. Human’s skin adjusts physiological conditions by sweating. Heat taken away under the process of evaporation of sweat, leading to the rapid decline in skin temperature and causing a chilling effect, which is affecting the thermal comfort. The pillow designed to enhance human’s sleep in different humidity conditions of thermal comfort. Currently design focused more on pillow to improve sleep quality. The products mainly focus on pillow firmness by the topic of adjusting head pressure. Rarely focus on the relationship between the process of sleeping head humidity and sleeping system. Many aspects need to consider upholding the core concept of head humidity adjustment to enhance sleep quality, such as changes of head humidity, microclimate in sleep and the interaction between human and system. The aim is to develop a system, which can immediately enhance sleep quality.

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