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Using Apple Watch to Track a Geek's Heartrate Response While Watching WWDC
- stesch 11y agoShould have watched my heart rate this morning (CEST) when I tried to sign an app for enterprise deployment. Nothing was working. Many Apple servers were in maintenance work until before the keynote.
- brandonb 11y agoStress makes a big difference in my experience! It's actually the most common driver of heart rate increases in our data set. And it's potentially predictive of heart attacks, see the comment about "sympathetic surges" here: https://ssl.www8.hp.com/hpmatter/issue-no-3-winter-2015/heart-big-data-largest-heart-disease-study-date https://ssl.www8.hp.com/hpmatter/issue-no-3-winter-2015/hear...
- brandonb 11y agoNot the OP but I'm the "geek" mentioned in the title. This is updating live during the keynote. Let me know if anybody out there has questions!
- frakkingcylons 11y agoDid Google I/O get you more or less hot and bothered?
- brandonb 11y agoUnfortunately I didn't record my heart rate during Google I/O, but you can see how WWDC compared to last night's Game of Thrones here (warning: spoilers): http://cardiogr.am/c/gameofthrones http://cardiogr.am/c/gameofthrones
- thecodemonkey 11y agoDid you die for a little bit on 12:50? The heart rate completely disappears on the chart.
- ejcx 11y agoHow does your average WWDC heartrate compare to your average resting heart rate?
- brandonb 11y agoMy resting heart rate is usually 60-68bpm (varies quite a bit by day). I'm probably elevated overall since I'm also watching the server to make sure it's not crashing.
- ohitsdom 11y agoThis is hilarious, well done!
- mafuyu 11y agoWhen will I be able to do anything similar? I enjoy using Cardiogram but there doesn't seem to be any good way to export or view my data outside the app, unless I missed it. Additionally, I can't store or view any data unless I'm connected to the internet.
- brandonb 11y agoIf you have thoughts on what you'd like to do in the ideal case, feel free to send them to brandon@cardiogr.am. We whipped this up over the weekend.
- chuckcode 11y agoDo you have any idea what the distribution of your resting heart rate is? Are the spikes over 100 significant or just normal variation? Would be really cool for next big announcement to get data from a number of people and see if the charts are correlated.
- lam 11y agoDid you annotate the cardiograph manually as you watched the event? Thanks!
- anigbrowl 11y agoExtra points if you can automate stock trades based on physiological cues.
- apple-fann 11y agoAnd they say the Apple Watch is a useless trinket!
- brandonb 11y agoI actually think the watch will have huge impact on heart disease (and am working on making that happen). The resolution of data you can get on the watch is just amazing, but we'll need some basic research to translate that into real medical gains. I'd expect to see impact in the next year or two though.
- raelshark 11y agoI've been wondering how good the continuous readings were on it. I'm actively considering the best device to track my really complex heart rate issues (I have postural tachycardia). But I don't use an iPhone, so Watch might be off the table for the near future.
- brandonb 11y agoMy personal experience is that the Apple Watch's heart rate readings are usually within 5 minutes of my AliveCor. Unfortunately, none of the Android watches currently on the market have a sensor that's particularly reliable. For now, I'd say a Garmin device or an AliveCor are the best bet for non-iPhone users.
- dsugarman 11y agoHow does the watch compare to other heart rate monitors on price, reliability, communications, etc?
- Cass 11y agoIf the watch can learn to detect irregular pulse/atrial fibrillation (hell, even if it only recognizes it a fraction of the time) it's going to have a huge impact on strokes, too.
- sloanesturz 11y agoThis is the most meta thing I've seen in a long time.
- comrade1 11y agoWell, I guess someone found a use for the Apple Watch.
- guiomie 11y agoIsn't 88 high when sitting down?
- k-mcgrady 11y agoI believe resting heart rate between 60 and 100 is the average (or something like that).
- Nilef 11y ago88 is pretty high yeah - few factors come in to play like how recently you were standing and moving around, but generally speaking, if your BPM is over 70-75 at rest, you're either really unhealthy or have a very naturally fast heartbeat, which can be a sign of heart issues.
- aout 11y agoBehold the online doctor syndrome.
- uberneo 11y agowhich device you have used to track this ?
- NN88 11y agoNotes, eh?
- markhahn 11y agodo geeks watch WWDC? appleheads, sure, but not real geeks...
- caryhartline 11y agoThat's like saying only real geeks read comics from one publisher rather than another. These are operating systems that are getting updates and there is a presentation about that. What does a "real" geek do?
- etrautmann 11y agoVery cool in concept - this seems to be a null result though, since the variability is extremely small (only a few bpm). I would be surprised if the noted events corresponded to statistically significant deviations, but obviously can't be sure by inspection.
- TekNoir 11y agoOr possibly the increase could come from applauding when the announcements were made.
- tinbad 11y agoSo the most exciting thing at the WWDC was the new Notes app?
- shard972 11y agoPersonally I think being able to designate your own watch faces is a game changer.
- hiergiltdiestfu 11y agoMan, stuff like WWDC and in a wider sense, Apple, is really becoming a religion. Some of those hearty reactions on Twitter were so euphoric, that for me it cannot be explained by regular, adult, technological excitement anymore. It's not like they announced cold fusion or life on mars. But anyways, a cordial +1 for being a nerd with all your heart! :)
- uncoder0 11y agoHeart rate variability is what's interesting... not BPM. BPM alone tells little to none of the story. Does the watch report RR-Intervals? I thought it did not.