My smartwatch told me I was asleep while I was making coffee

So I've had this fitness tracker for about 8 months, and I always wondered why my sleep score was so low. I'd wake up feeling fine, but the app would say I only got 4 hours of 'restful' sleep. This morning, I was standing at my kitchen counter in Seattle, grinding beans for my 6 AM brew, and I felt my wrist buzz. I looked down and the screen said 'Great job! You just completed a 2 hour sleep cycle.' I was literally holding a coffee grinder. The thing had been counting my quiet morning routine as a nap this whole time. I guess it just sees no movement and a low heart rate and calls it sleep. Now I'm wondering how many of my 'deep sleep' stats are just me reading a book or watching a movie. Has anyone else had a gadget totally misinterpret a basic human activity like that?

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andrew8546d ago

My Fitbit logged a two-hour nap during a long movie last week.

spencer_hayes716d ago

My watch did the same thing during the last Lord of the Rings movie. It kept logging my relaxed heart rate as sleep. I turned off the auto sleep tracking for the next movie night. Just manually logged my actual sleep later. It fixed the problem.