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Today the use of multi touch devices like iphone and ipad are in rapid increase because of their attractive features and utilities. But its impact on human health is known little to us. Finger flicking can have some serious impact on humans. Researchers team at Arizona state university have started a project to study impact on humans by long term use of multi touch devices. There is a chance that long use of these multi touch devices may cause diseases like musculoskeletol disorders. The research is conducted by fitting the users with electromyography equipment. By using this electromyography equipment the muscle forces are measured for each touching is measured. The cyber gloves are also wore by the users, by using which the users hand movements while they interact with the multi touch devices is recorded. Then the second phase of this project involves the development of biochanical models using which the stress created for each gesture can be measured. This data can be given to companies like apple, Microsoft and other manufacturers so that by using this data they could design new devices with required changes.