TouchGrass 🌿 — Turn Screen Time into Green Time

Description and use

TouchGrass turns screen time into outdoor time by offering Walk, Nature, and Explore activities with on-device image labeling and progress tracking.

Problem

Users spend excessive time scrolling on screens instead of engaging with the outdoors.

Outcome

TouchGrass enables users to replace screen time with outdoor activities, providing on-device AI feedback and progress tracking without relying on remote services.

Workflow

• Launch TouchGrass app
• Select an activity (Walk, Nature, Explore)
• For Nature: capture photo → pass to Capacitor ML Kit image labeling → receive labels and confidence scores → display results
• For Explore: capture photo → save to personal journal
• For Walk: complete a simple outdoor task
• Track completed activities in progress tracker

Evidence

TouchGrass is a mobile-first app that encourages people to step away from their screens, explore the outdoors, and build a habit of noticing the world around them.

Source

Instead of endlessly scrolling, users can choose from three activities: Walk, Nature, Explore.

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Built as a Vue application with Capacitor for native Android integration.

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Google ML Kit Image Labeling via @capacitor-mlkit/image-labeling for on-device image labeling.

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