Heart Rate Monitoring

Podcast: Human Factors Minute · Human Factors Cast

Opublikowano: 2026-05-20

Heart rate monitoring is often used to gather real-time data from a user’s physiological response while they are performing tasks on a product or system. This is an important biometric & neuro-measurement tool because it senses unconscious changes in a user’s stress, workload, and drowsiness. Since mental processing like emotional reactions and decision-making happen unconsciously, it offers more insight to how a user’s body is responding to a given situation. In user studies, if a participant is having trouble completing a task, they might become more emotionally aroused and stressed. Even if they verbally express that th...