Designers create a covid-19 inspired website that yells at users when they touch their faces

A new website will help users stop unconsciously touching their faces by monitoring them through their web cams and playing a loud'NO!' whenever they reach for their faces, one of the most common ways of transmitting the Covid-19 virus. The site, simply called DoNotTouchYourFace.com, was built to run in the background as users go about their normal workdays. Before starting a session, it will ask for access to the web cam and then take a recording of the user sitting still for a few seconds as a baseline. The new website DoNotTouchYourFace.com will watch users through their computer web cams and play a loud'NO!' recording whenever it detects them reaching for their face Then users will be asked to touch their face in as many different ways as they can imagine--rubbing their eyes, cupping their chin, scratching their nose, and everything in between--according to a report in Vice. A machine learning tool built into the site, TensorFlow.js, will then analyze the footage to identify specific movements that will trigger its loud warning sound. Whenever it identifies a user reaching to touch their face, a recording of a loud'NO!' will automatically play, along with a popup notification saying, 'You touched your face.'