Sentiment analysis: analysed
So your smartwatch can now determine your mood, and positive and negative parts can be found in sentences/texts. But how accurate is it? There are a few awesome gadgets/websites/apps that let you track sentiment:
Being: The mindfulness tracker
This is a fitness monitor that can distinguish good- from bad stress, track your activity with heart rate sensing, and provide sleep science insights.
This smartwatch-like device is from Zensorium. They design and research products that improve the quality of life: check it out!
‘’Zensorium Being maps your mood into four different zones, differentiating good from bad stress. It senses your energy from your heart rate and changes in blood pressure, and determines your emotions from your heart rate variability.
Capable of continuous monitoring, it knows when you are stressed, and provides steps for deep breathing exercises to reduce stress.’’-Source
For more information about this product: → go here
Stanford
The university of Stanford set up a sentiment tree with a live demo. You can insert a sentence or story and it will be analysed. It’s fairly accurate. All words are given a mood: very negative, negative, neutral, positive, very positive.
Not all that advanced- but think of the possibilities! While writing a book, blog, or anything really: it’s all about getting the right message across. Learn how your message is perceived by others! This could change the movie industry as well, or badly translated books. I, for one, cannot stand to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerers’ Stone in Dutch: makes me cringe. They don’t seem to properly transfer all the excitement and emotions. Sucks.
Want to try it yourself? →go here
Spire: Breath and activity tracker
Spire is a clip-on wearable which keeps track of breath patterns and activities and analyses them. It senses the expansion and contraction in your torso and diaphragm when you inhale and exhale. With this it can determine whether you are calm, focussed, or tense.
Respiration is something you can control directly, unlike all other bodily autonomic functions. So when you see that you have a breath pattern that is categorised as stressed: you can calm yourself down. With increased stress and quick breaths there will also an increase in blood pressure, this is a good way to manage it!
This tiny device does not only connect to the body, but also the mind! That’s how Spire stands out.
It connects to your phone and gives you real time stats. Your phone will vibrate when you have several minutes of tense breathing, it will remind you to stay calm and breathe deeply. It also has a library with guided meditations and tracks physical activity. Spire will give you notifications to tell you to stay active and hit your step goals {oh yeah, it also counts your steps and burnt calories!}
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