Multi-Touch technology is hazardous to health?

With the advent of iPad, and big plans for other manufacturers to release something like that, scientists think about whether technology injury Multi-Touch for Health users themselves, and does not endanger this kind of movement of the fingers of normal work of muscles and bones hands.

Kenev Keol (Kanav Kahol), associate professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University, heads a group scientists conducting a long-term experiment, which is funded by a grant of $ 1.2 million from the National Science Foundation. In the ranks of researchers includes scientists involved in the study of user interaction with the computer, kinesiology and experts on ergonomics.

According to Mr. Keola, devices working with Multi-Touch technology, very easy to use. But we have not yet studied the impact of this technology and the associated corresponding gestures on the health of the musculoskeletal system of man.

The study is planned to equip the participants experiments electromyographic equipment for measuring muscle force applied when controlling devices using gestures Multi-Touch. Special cyber gloves must record all movements of the hands of the subjects hand. Next stage of the experiment will be to develop biomechanical models that show what a load test muscles and bones of the hands in the implementation of gestures Multi-Touch.

All data, scientists obtained from the study plan to provide developers Microsoft, Apple and other companies, so that they have made the necessary adjustments to the Multi-Touch technology in its products and to make it as safe.