The present disclosure discloses a wearable device and method of controlling the same, the wearable device including a thermal sensing acquisition module for receiving a touch operation by a user and acquiring a thermal sensing distribution curve of the touch operation as a current thermal sensing distribution curve, a thermal sensing processing module for determining a function corresponding to the current thermal sensing distribution curve as a current function based on the current thermal sensing distribution curve and preset corresponding relationships between thermal sensing distribution curves and functions, an instruction generating module for generating an invoking control instruction corresponding to the current function according to the current function, and an execution module for executing the invoking control instruction to perform the current function. The wearable device and method of controlling the same provided by the present disclosure may be applied to a wearable device where touch operations are used.