This work was carried out to serve two purposes:• Create and share a single motion profile that emulates the handshake of a population of mobile phone users taking still photos under real life conditions.• Describe the validation procedure required to ensure the high fidelity motion platform chosen can correctly reproduce the proposed motion profile.By means of psychophysical testing, we examined the frequency and spatial characteristics of human handshake, based on which we created synthetic handshake profile with very similar properties.We demonstrate how the proposed motion trace correlates extremely well with real handshake and why using a realistic motion profile together with a high fidelity motion platform is crucially important in order to avoid disturbances not present with real users.