Health setting for measuring stress induces stress

[dev64]

This makes zero sense. 

If you go to the S23 wearable app > health > measurement

You see settings for how often you can measure: heart rate, or stress

Heart rate shows you to can choose continuously or 10 minutes. 

Stress let's you choose continuous or manual

Why can't we measure stress every 10 minutes? Why all or nothing?

Some of us don't want a laser constantly blasting our skin, so 10 minutes would be great. But seems like product owner didn't want us to have that option. 

"The customer should only be able to measure their stress constantly. They must not be able to automatically measure their stress on a periodic basis, that would be too useful."

As said above this makes zero sense. 

[dev64]

The only two possible options...

[BandOfBrothers]

I would suggest to post in the dedicated thread for this sort of thing @dev64 

https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/mobile-apps-services/the-suggestions-amp-ideas-thread-for-softwa... 

The Samsung Community Forum Team can then forward this on. 

If i can be of any further help please don't hesitate to ask  😎 

[smiley]

There may be a valid reason for this.

The heart rate is a single spontaneous measurement. Whether it is continous, or wakes up once every 10 minutes to do a quick measure, or by pressing a button for a manual measurement. All of these modes are short single point heart rate measurements. Continous will just leave the sensor on and record every second. There is no averaging needed for this.

For the stress test mode, it needs a certain length of averaged data to be able to give analysis. If you do a manual measurement it takes around 30 seconds of data to be able to give a result. Changing to continous measurement would just leave it running with a rolling data set, and continually adjust the averaging period.

However a periodic 10 min regime doesn't really work too well with this type of measurement that needs 20-30 data to be averaged. The watch would need to wake up, turn on the sensor and then grab a data set before analysing.

I think this test would be similar to having a 10 minute option for blood pressure or ECG. It would take time to perform and would probably drain the battery significantly.

Personally I would think manual measurement for stress test is enough... but that is personal choice. I don't actually run this test very often... it seems like a bit of a moot analysis to me. There is no measured value and simply a green to red scale... what does this actually mean anyway as there is no context to the scaling or the test.

I can certainly feel when I am stressed (at work or home) and probably i don't need a watch to tell me that i am stressed. 😉

Just my own opinions of course and I don't represent official Samsung opinion as I am simply just another customer.

Cheers
Smiley.

[dev64]

You raise valid points. I might be naively thinking this could work in such a way, but maybe there are more technical reasons why not. I was just coming from the angle that I could set a timer and manually invoke it every 10 minutes when the alarm goes off, or even 30 minutes, so wondering why there is no automation for this. Would be great to have the option. That is it really.

[dev64]

My apologies, clicking that link takes me to a generic page in this app (the Samsung discovery page), copying it into a browser returns not found.. how do I follow it please?