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A silly study? But think of the use cases! The Wristband monitors everyone's heat rate and knows the correct response to each media input. "It seems you have stopped paying attention to your targeted advertising. Shall I replay your ads now?"
While interesting, not too surprising, right? Their heart rates will be low during the calm parts, high during the tense parts, etc.
A silly study? But think of the use cases! The Wristband monitors everyone's heat rate and knows the correct response to each media input. "It seems you have stopped paying attention to your targeted advertising. Shall I replay your ads now?"
s/synchronize/rise and fall in sync/ Maybe I'm being a bit of a jerk but.. yeah? The suspenseful parts of the story raise your heart rate and the relaxed parts go t'other way I'd be interested in knowing if this could be used for diagnosing mental disorder things such as sociopathy maybe
s/synchronize/rise and fall in sync/ Maybe I'm being a bit of a jerk but.. yeah? The suspenseful parts of the story raise your heart rate and the relaxed parts go t'other way I'd be interested in knowing if this could be used for diagnosing mental disorder things such as sociopathy maybe
It's effectively measuring emotional response to fictional events, which sounds like a plausible way to diagnose a huge range of mental disorders. But if the subject wants to be diagnosed, why not just ask them how something made them feel? And if they don't want to be diagnosed (like you would expect for some sociopaths, pedophiles etc.) this won't help. If a full polygraph can't be proven to work against unwilling…
Fair point. I was trying to throw the study a bone instead of declare it completely useless
Fake headline. This is not the usual meaning of the word “synchronize”. As many other commenters here point out, this makes the story a non-story. Strictly speaking, the headline is true in that the heart rates “synchronize”, but not the heart beats , which I would think that most people would mis-read the headline as.
A silly study? But think of the use cases! The Wristband monitors everyone's heat rate and knows the correct response to each media input. "It seems you have stopped paying attention to your targeted advertising. Shall I replay your ads now?"
“Your response during the two-minutes hate did not show wide enough variation in response to scenes of our enemy Oceania and images of Big Brother. Please report for conditioning.”
Sure, it may not be at the government level except at certain agencies, however imagine when this sort of mentality is used to measure corporate culture. Your subconscious responses during your annual reviews and corporate pep rallies may take on a whole new dynamic.
Fake headline. This is not the usual meaning of the word “synchronize”. As many other commenters here point out, this makes the story a non-story. Strictly speaking, the headline is true in that the heart rates “synchronize”, but not the heart beats , which I would think that most people would mis-read the headline as.
PNAS reporting the shocking news that peoples heart rates tend to increase during the exciting part of a story and that an increased rate leads to higher correlation between subjects.
Edit: Without naming any author in particular - does anyone else spot a pattern whereby certain researchers consistently hype their findings to the point of borderline dishonesty?
A silly study? But think of the use cases! The Wristband monitors everyone's heat rate and knows the correct response to each media input. "It seems you have stopped paying attention to your targeted advertising. Shall I replay your ads now?"
I honestly will not be surprised when this comment gets turned into a start-up that gets funded... either this or the other obvious dystopian application, monitoring employees attention in meetings.