While your smart watch’s insights can help, experts warn they’re no panacea for your mental health—even if brands might attempt to sway you otherwise.
Remember the 1990s when mood rings were having a moment? Well, what’s old is new again, except with a high-tech twist: Instead of color-changing stones to indicate shifting emotions, today’s “modern mood rings” use physiological data to flag moments of stress, excitement, despair, and more.
Most of these devices track a wearer’s electrodermal activity —or how the electrical properties of the skin change due to sweat gland activity, Prause explained. Sweat level is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, which are the network of nerves that activate your body’s fight or flight response. Real-time changes in sweat can indicate how your body isIt’s similar to how your heartbeat speeds up when you’re excited or anxious, and slows when you’re relaxed.
However, it’s not that simple—as most human emotions tend to be. “Emotion is defined along two axes: how pleasant the emotion is, from unpleasant to very pleasant; and how intense the emotion is, from not at all intense to very intense,” Prause explained. “These devices do absolutely nothing on the first axis, but they’ve got lots of game on the second axis.”
But that doesn’t make emotion-tracking devices any less valuable as a mental health tool. In fact, Dai’s, presented at the International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation in May 2023, touted "the feasibility and promise of using wearables to detect mental disorders.”
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