Beyond physical fitness, wearable gadgets are taking a keener interest in your mental health.
What might be most interesting about the Sense 2′s approach is the reactiveness of it all — it won’t prompt you to reflect on the nature your stress unless it thinks you’ve just experienced some. And to do that, it needs to take a pretty broad look at the ways your body acts in real-time, even if you’re not fully aware of them.The key to spotting that stress in the moment, Fitbit says, is the “Body Response” sensor built into the Sense 2.
Even if you’re not someone who experiences full-blown flop sweat when things go awry, those micro-shifts in sweat content of your skin can indicate different kinds of emotional arousal, including the onset of stress. And when the algorithm determines that the blend of sweatiness, heart rate, heart rate variability and body temperature look appropriately out of whack, the Sense 2 will flash a notification on its screen to check in with you — a few minutes later, anyway.
“A few hours later, you probably forgot what was going on,” said Elena Perez, group product manager at Fitbit. “In the moment, you may not be in the mind-set to really reflect if you’re going through a stressful situation.”As part of that check-in, the Sense 2 asks its owner what they just felt — an important question considering that, physiologically, signals like a surging heart rate and heightened temperature can mean a lot of things.
“It’s not equally accessible to everybody, but seeing a qualified therapist can, I think, do a better job of helping people design an individualized way to approach what they feel isn’t an optimal moment in their lives,” said Mark Seery, a stress researcher at the University at Buffalo. “Relying on a Fitbit to sort of be a proxy for something like that — I wouldn’t be super-excited to recommend that.
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