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Using Apple Watch to Track a Geek's Heartrate Response While Watching WWDC

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96 pointsjasonshen36 comments

Not 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!

How does your average WWDC heartrate compare to your average resting heart rate?

My 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.

This is hilarious, well done!

Did Google I/O get you more or less hot and bothered?

Unfortunately 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

Did you die for a little bit on 12:50? The heart rate completely disappears on the chart.

When 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.

If 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.

Do 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.

Did you annotate the cardiograph manually as you watched the event? Thanks!

Extra points if you can automate stock trades based on physiological cues.

Should 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.

Stress 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/hear...

This is the most meta thing I've seen in a long time.

Very 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.

Or possibly the increase could come from applauding when the announcements were made.

And they say the Apple Watch is a useless trinket!

I 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.

I'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.

My 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.

How does the watch compare to other heart rate monitors on price, reliability, communications, etc?

If 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.

Man, 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! :)

Heart 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.

So the most exciting thing at the WWDC was the new Notes app?

Personally I think being able to designate your own watch faces is a game changer.

Isn't 88 high when sitting down?

I believe resting heart rate between 60 and 100 is the average (or something like that).

88 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.

Behold the online doctor syndrome.

which device you have used to track this ?

Notes, eh?

Well, I guess someone found a use for the Apple Watch.

do geeks watch WWDC? appleheads, sure, but not real geeks...

That'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?

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