A vision for heart rate health through wearables

Wearable technology has great potential for helping members of the public monitor their health. We are interested in medical conditions that can be monitored using the sensors on wearable devices like the Apple Watch. We are interested in the insights that can be provided by the monitoring of a person's heart rate. We have conducted interviews with doctors to understand what can be learned about the health of an individual via their heart rate and how we can use that information to design applications that aid in monitoring these conditions. In this paper, we explore this design space and identify the applications we will develop to help users track these conditions in considerably less invasive ways than current methods.