Actiware Sleep Scoring Software

Actiware Software is a flexible and powerful software package that allows users to easily configure and retrieve recorded data from all Actiwatch models in addition to data management, analysis and export. Actiware displays activity, illuminance, and event marks in an easy to read Actogram format allowing long term sleep/wake patterns to be easily identified. Actiware can also quantify important sleep statistics such as Sleep Time, Sleep Efficiency, and Wake After Sleep Onset based upon user defined or automatically determined rest intervals. Actiware is equipped with user-friendly new features that automatically display off-wrist times, irradiance information for three color bands of light, as well as automatic detection of major and minor rest intervals making analysis of activity data for sleep easier than ever.

Auto-Rest interval detection

One of Actiware's newest features that makes implementing actigraphy easier than ever is its auto-rest algorithm. By customizing your major and minor rest interval detection settings, Actiware can detect major and minor rest intervals for you.

Off-wrist detection

Actiwatch Spectrum contains an off-wrist detection sensor. The sensor detects and logs off-wrist events in its non-volatile memory. When activity data is downloaded from the Actiwatch Spectrum, Actiware will display the off-wrist events in a column of dark blue.

New Light Information and statistics

Multiple colored lights sensing is now available with Actiwatch Spectrum which is capable of recording red, green and blue light. The four channels of light data are displayed individually on an actogram in Actiware.

View up to seven channels of data at once

Actiware 5.54 allows you to view more channels of recorded data at once than previous versions of Actiware. Channels of data available are activity, event-marking, off-wrist detection, white light, red light, green light and blue light.

Communication Console

Actiware 5.54 features all-in one communication console that allows you to configure, dowload and query mutiple devices. Check device status, choose desired data channels as well as set data collection start and end times. 

"With its ability to record continuously for long time periods, (Actigraphy) is more reliable than sleep logs which rely on the patients' recall of how many times they woke up or how long they slept during the night and is more reliable than observations which only capture short time periods. Actigraphy can provide information obtainable in no other practical way."

"Actigraphy is also appropriate for the assessment of and stability of treatment effects of anything from hypnotic drugs to light treatment to CPAP, particularly if assessments are done before and after the start of treatment."

- Ancoli-Israel S, Cole R, Alessi C, et al. The role of actigraphy in the study of sleep and circadian rhythms. SLEEP, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2003.

"Actigraphy provides an acceptably accurate es-timate of sleep patterns in normal, healthy adult populations and inpa-tients suspected of certain sleep disorders... Literature has been published that addresses the use of actigraphy in the evaluation of insomnia, circadian rhythm sleep disorders, sleep related breathing disor-ders, determination of response to therapy, and in the evaluation of sleep patterns among special populations... This literature, in combination with growing clinical experience with actigraphy, led to the inclusion of actigraphy as a measure of sleep duration and sleep patterns in the diagnostic criteria for several specific sleep disorders in the second edition of the International Clas-sification of Sleep Disorders."

- Morgenthaler et al. Practice Parameters for the Use of Actigraphy in the Assessment of Sleep and Sleep Disorders: An Update for 2007. SLEEP, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2007.

"Actigraphy may serve as a useful adjunct to routine clinical evaluation of insomnia, circadian-rhythm disorders, and excessive sleepiness, and may be helpful in the assessment of specific aspects of some disorders, such as insomnia and restless legs syndrome/periodic limb movement disorder."

- Littner et al. Practice Parameters for the Role of Actigraphy in the Study of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms: An Update for 2002. SLEEP, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2003.

Download the instruction manual here.

A tutorial is available here. Leanr how to configure an Actiwatch, retrieve data, view and change actogram settings, configure automated analysis, choosing sleep statistics and algorithm settings, score data manually, set rest intervals and excluded intervals, print reports and export data.  

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