We all know staring at your phone for hours isn’t great for mental health. But what about your fingers? Previously, researchers couldn’t measure this. A new AI model, Log2Motion, from Aalto and Leipzig Universities, now changes that.
The model converts smartphone logs into simulated human movement, like a digital skeleton moving its finger across a phone screen, mirroring real users.
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Through a software emulator, it can even use real apps in real time, mimicking logged interactions to study what’s physically happening during each swipe, tap, and scroll.
Is scrolling affecting our health?
Yes, according to researchers, scrolling adversely affects your health. They found that not all gestures are equally easy to perform. Up-down and down-up swipes require more effort than other movements. This is what most of us in today’s short-form content world, so if you needed any more confirmation to stop using apps like
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