Texting on the move makes you walk weird, study finds - CNET
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Walking silly isn’t just a Monty Python sketch. It’s something that you’ll do naturally if you walk while browsing your phone, a study has shown.
Researchers at Anglia Ruskin University put a mobile eye tracker and motion analysis sensors on participants who walked and crossed a kerb-like obstacle on the ground while writing or reading a text or talking on the phone.
According to results, phone users spend up to 61 percent less time watching out for the obstacle, and bring their foot up “higher and slower” over the obstacle as they walked, adopting a “cautious and exaggerated stepping strategy” to minimise the risk of tripping.