(iSLEEP) – development of mobile application to assist insomnia patient using Islamic approach / Nur ‘Adilah Abusin

Sleep is actually one of the basic needs in our daily life as a human being in order for our body to get rest and for our organ to work and functioning well day-to-day. But, there is also an existence of sleep-deprived which is insomnia. Unfortunately, in Malaysia, the current method used still lag in terms of technology intervention. In addition, most insomnia related mobile application does not have Islamic values/features for Muslim user and only available in English. It will be hard for the user who does not frequently speak in English or who do not have more knowledge in English to understand some terms used. Therefore, the project is to propose a mobile application to assist the insomnia patient using an Islamic approach. The objective of this project is to identify the user requirements of an iSLEEP mobile application for insomnia patient, to design, and to develop an iSLEEP mobile application for insomnia patient. For scope, this project focusing on primary insomnia patient in Malaysia who is a Muslim regardless of age and gender. User can use the features which are hearing either Al – Quran, Dhikr or Dua’ recitations and also sounds of nature and visualization to track their sleep. This project is in Bahasa Malaysia and available in Android. Next, Android Studio and visualization technique are being used to develop this project. This project also used MADLC as the methodology but until the testing phase only. Based on the result of user testing, it shows positive feedback from the user and expert. As a conclusion, an iSLEEP mobile application can assist insomnia patient in order to reduce their sleep problem.