HRV Fit and Ithlete Pro

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HRV Fit is an international software and biosensor development company, who focus on providing athletes with the knowledge and tools to maximise their training efforts and improve performance, enjoyment and health. Through combining their sporting experience, scientific research and biosensor technology, with User Experience design from Sigma, the HRV Fit team built ithlete, a product aimed at monitoring and allowing users to respond to HRV in endurance sports or training. Sigma is an award-winning team with a focus on UX across public websites, application and corporate systems. Chris is our Head of UX at Sigma and ensures we design projects that meet stakeholder and user goals. Chris has developed Sigma’s services in user research, testing and user experience consulting including persuasive design (PET Theory). Simon and Chris will discuss the challenges they faced in developing a device that had to be scientifically valid, practical and uncomplicated to use. www.myithlete.com.

Lifestyle

Crafting the HRV
experience
Simon Wegerif
Founder, HRV Fit ltd.
Christopher Bush
Head of UX, Sigma

• Who cares about HRV (and why)?
• What is HRV?
• How do we make it simple & inexpensive?
• How do we leverage early adopters to create a better user experience?
• How do we extend the experience and business model?
• Where do we want to get to in future?
What we will cover

Astronauts
Space Jumpers
F1 drivers
Endurance Professionals
Cardiac rehab
Recovery after surgery
Auto immune conditions
Diabetics
Patients
Balancing training & recovery
Maximise performance
Keep healthy
Athletes & sportspeople
Who cares about HRV

Objective measure of overall health
Fast response to lifestyle changes (+ve and -ve)
Right timing & frequency of exercise
All of us really
Who cares about HRV

The timing of training is important
• Deliberately & repeatedly stress the body
• Force adaptation through super compensation
• Get stronger, faster, more efficient
• The magic happens during recovery
• Training = Workouts + Recovery
• If the balance between Workouts & Recovery is wrong, either:
• Under-train – improvement is slow or does not occur at all
• Over-train – improvement also does not occur !
• Overtraining = Under recovery

What is HRV analysis?
• HRV is a medical measurement
• known about for a long time
• Sensor attached to body
• Originally performed using ECG
• Some models of HRM strap
• Pulse at finger tip
• Traditionally expensive & complex to perform

Challenge:
How do we make
it simple and
inexpensive?

What we learnt:
ithlete
HRV
UI was very
technical
Learning
curve was
steep
Use of the
app was
habitual
It takes a
while to
build trust
in the data.
The first
HRV scan
of the day
is
important

User experience isn’t just UI
• The original sensor configuration

User experience isn’t just UI
• The new sensor configuration
Why not
wireless?

The solution:
ithlete
HRV
What we
improved

The solution:
ithlete
HRV
Removed
clutter from
reading screen
Introduced
breathing disc

The solution:
ithlete
HRV
Introduced
the collection
of subjective
measures and
comments

The solution:
ithlete
HRV
Introduced
a
dashboard
for
personal
analysis

The solution:
ithlete
HRV
Landscape
chart lets
you correlate
HRV with
subjective
indicators

The ithlete patent is mainly about the UX
• Convenient 1 min measure
• Robust processing algorithms
• User feedback in 3 complementary
forms
• Traffic lights
• Number scale
• Charts
• Correlations between objective (HRV)
and subjective (Likert scale) measures

What we learnt:
ithlete
HRV
Users love
the new
app &
hardware
:D
Apps are
great for
input and
‘I need it
now’
informatio
n
Geeks
(of any
kind)
love data
Planning
activities
tend to
happen off
device

User feedback
Giving
users full
control of
their data

User feedback Training
support and
guidance
Improved user
insight
through
complementar
y visualisation

Support for
complimentar
y devices
Easy access
data export

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