We know from move reminders (also present on the original Sense) that when they arrive during work meetings, dinner with friends, or while getting on with life’s other demands, it’s not always convenient to get up and do 200 steps because your wearable said so. However, the app now shows your current heart rate variability compared to your baseline, which does make it a more interesting and useful process. In turn, EDA Sensor counts how many stress responses were registered – a number that struggles to be meaningful in our eyes. The EDA Scan is a two-minute time out, where you place your palm over the screen. It's surprisingly effective, and a smart use of the sensors. The guided breathing is more active than we’ve seen on other wearables, and encourages you to match your breathing to patterns shown on the watch face, and it uses nifty color-coded feedback in real-time to show when you're breathing is in sync. If you struggle with stress, this could be useful for you.įrom this screen, you can start a breathing and mindfulness session, or an EDA Scan session on the watch. It’s a prompt ultimately, then, that makes you aware (in its own opaque way) that your physical state has been diminished, but is that enough? It's about identifying triggers, and just being aware of when you're feeling stressed. But you can’t tag triggers to real events. It’s not even clear whether the Sense 2 thinks these are good or bad changes, which kind of undermines what comes next.Īt this point, you can input your mood using pre-set icons, and, over time, you can view triggers and see how they correspond to moods.

However, the actual alert on the wrist just mentions 'changes' in your body. A big alert saying 'CHILL OUT' might be what you expect.

We expected this to be annoying, but we were rarely prompted more than once per day. If it detects a stress response, you’ll be prompted to log how you were feeling from a range of pre-set emotions. Stress Management is the headline feature of the Fitbit Sense 2 – and it’s been overhauled, with that cEDA sensor now constantly scanning for stress responses. The EDA sensor on the original Fitbit Sense could spot-check for skin responses to stress, while the Sense 2 can do that automatically.Ĭontinuous ECG is the basis of the overhauled Stress Management feature, which is now the key focus of the Sense 2. The Sense 2 also uses a continuous electro-dermal sensor (cEDA).

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