{"id":26089,"date":"2025-08-10T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=26089"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:09:02","slug":"were-wrong-about-smartwatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/were-wrong-about-smartwatches\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Wrong About Smartwatches: They&#8217;re Not as Good at Measuring Stress as We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We use smartwatches for many different purposes, but a new study shows that they aren&#8217;t as good at measuring stress as many people believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people rely on their smartwatches to track their stress levels, but a new study suggests that these devices aren&#8217;t very reliable for this purpose. The research, published in the <strong>Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science<\/strong>, found that smartwatches can sometimes mistake &#8220;excitement&#8221; for stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study compared the self-reported feelings of approximately 800 college students wearing a <strong>Garmin vivosmart 4<\/strong> with the data from their watches. The results revealed that there was <strong>no consistent correlation<\/strong> between the students&#8217; feelings and the watch&#8217;s data. This means that when your watch shows a high &#8220;stress level,&#8221; you might actually be feeling very happy or excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stress Measurement Can&#8217;t Detect Emotions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/indir-14.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/indir-14.webp 720w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/indir-14-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/indir-14-150x100.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Garmin states that it uses heart rate and <strong>heart rate variability<\/strong> to measure stress. However, speaking in public and climbing stairs both increase your heart rate, but the underlying feelings are different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the study&#8217;s authors, Eiko Fried, said, &#8220;Watches measure heart rate, but this is not directly linked to our emotions. The heart also speeds up during moments of happiness or sexual excitement. Don&#8217;t live your life based too much on smartwatch data, because these are not medical devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, do you think your smartwatch&#8217;s stress level data is accurate? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You Might Also Like;<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use smartwatches for many different purposes, but a new study shows that they aren&#8217;t as good at measuring stress as many people believe. Many people rely on their smartwatches to track their stress levels, but a new study suggests that these devices aren&#8217;t very reliable for this purpose. The research, published in the Journal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[341],"class_list":["post-26089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-futurescience","tag-wearable-technology"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}