Do Not Touch Your Face

Do Not Touch Your Face is a tool that teaches you to avoid touching your face using your webcam.

• You train a machine learning algorithm with your webcam • The website alerts you when you're touching your face • Over time, you learn to stop touching your face

FAQ

How does this work? • Using your webcam, you train a machine learning algorithm (specifically TensorFlow .js) to recognize you touching your face and not touching your face. Once it's trained, it watches and alerts you when you touch your face.

Why shouldn't I touch my face? • The CDC recommends not touching your face as one action you can take to prevent getting COVID-19. Other things you should do: stay home if you're sick and avoid contact with other sick people. But you probably knew that already.

The alerts aren't working! • Try refreshing the page and trying again. Every time you reload the page, the algorithm retrains itself.

Do you keep my information? • Nope. This entire site runs locally—all the calculations from your webcam and alerts are done on your computer and are never sent over the internet.

Will this stop me from getting COVID-19? • Not for sure, but it might help.

Who made this? • This was made with love and fear by Mike Bodge, Brian Moore, and Isaac Blankensmith. Be safe out there.