Last Updated on December 9, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
We do not know of a single scientist exept for Rob ter Horst who uses consumer grate heart rate monitors on a regular basis for scientific studies. Does Rob ter Horst not have any followers among scientists who pick up his studies and publishes papers? If consumer grade heart rate monitors could be used for scientific studies which are published in scientific papers, whould’nt the developers of these heart rate monitors not be the first to sell those for this purpose and publish validation papers about those?
The Firstbeat body guard is one of these consumer grade heart rate monitors with a validation paper. But the validation paper is only published as a white paper on the site of the manufacturer. The firstbeat body guard is occasionally used in scientific papers:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=firstbeat+bodyguard&oq=firstbeat+body
But we do not know of a single scientist who uses the first beat body guard on a regular basis as a scientific tool to publish papers.
And if consumer grade heart rate monitors would be a helpful tool to perform scientific studies, would the manufacturers be the first to introduce new products with new labels which sells those as scientific tools with a validation paper which qualifies those as that?
In contrast the papers we list here qualifies OpenBCI to be used as a scientic tool to study HRV and EEG:
But also here we do not know of a single scientist who uses OpenBCI on a regular basis as a scientic tool for HRV and EEG and and publishes papers with it.