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Maybe it should show the number of calories you'd burn going up the stairs. It would be a small number, but it's better than 0.
For 75kg (roughly average South Korean male weight) and 7" step height (standard in the US I think, not sure about Korea), this is about 0.13kJ/step.
By coincidence, the human metabolic efficiency is (roughly) the same as the conversion between kJ and food (kilo)calories, meaning this would be (very roughly) 0.1 calories/step.
Not much, given a single French fry is maybe 5-10 calories. But it's better than nothing!
It does actually show that
It says you burn 0.5Kcal for every 2 steps you take, and extend your life by 8 seconds.
Here is even an example that shows progress as your calories and seconds added increase as you climb up the stairs.
My former job used to have that on the stairs. Was a nice motivator for me.