# Do you track your emotions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-track-your-emotions/734764 "2015-10-16T00:08:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cosp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@cosp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosp)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-track-your-emotions/734764/1 "2015-10-16T00:08:34Z")
Howdy everyone, tl;dr Do you find it useful to track your mood? Have you ever tried to? I am a Human-Computer Interaction researcher who is working alongside a very talented team to developed a seriously novel way of using mood tracking improve emotion regulation technology. This is the sort of thing that the future will provide to everyone, and I believe without a doubt it will allow us to achieve greater personal development than ever before. Without sounding to spammy (and I do apologize if this is the wrong section- been lurking for a while and never made a post until today), we are looking for early beta-testers to try the system. As a beta-tester, you get to A)Try new technology that few people have used before, B)You’ll stand to gain some very useful insights into your mood over time, and there may be opportunities in the future to use the system to curate other types of data (e.g., steps, heart rate, etc.), and C) we do offer a few incentives to encourage full participation through out the study, of course. This application is developed within an academic institution, so I have to be minimal on the details as we don’t want to publicly give away too much information before the paper is complete. Of course, please email if you have any questions. I’m always happy to talk. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![MareIt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MareIt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MareIt)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-track-your-emotions/734764/2 "2015-10-17T00:58:07Z")
I would be interested… Thanks to my fitbit sleep tracker, I’ve already figured out the correlation between my sleep patterns and my ability to control my emotions. If I don’t get at least one 1 hour plus block of quality sleep during my 8 hours asleep, I will cry at the first drop of milk. Too many consecutive nights of poor quality of sleep and I become a depressed lump of human. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-track-your-emotions/734764/3 "2015-10-17T01:17:37Z")
Tell me more about C). Incentives. ---
**Author:** ![cosp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@cosp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosp)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-track-your-emotions/734764/4 "2015-10-20T19:08:47Z")
Ambivalid, We’re offering entry into a $50 Amazon gift card raffle. In a perhaps less tangible sense, participation in the study may also yield positive or new insight into your own personal life and habits. For all reading or wishing to participate, I apologize for not including my email; let me know if you’re interested at cspears -at- ucsc.edu Marlet, nice find using Fitbit! Wonder what else you could find out by tracking your behaviors when you’re awake? Thanks and let me know if there are any other questions! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-track-your-emotions/734764/5 "2015-10-20T19:22:06Z")
**cosp** , threads that are promoting an outside project are not allowed(see registration agreement), except in rare circumstances, and those require prior mod approval. I’m closing this thread. Contact a mod if you’d like to discuss having it re-opened.