As you've no doubt seen and heard by now, some of the most effective ways in reducing the spread of infectious diseases such as flu or coronavirus is to 1) not shake hands and 2) not touch your face with your hand.

Hard though to undo a lifetime of habits.

This pavlovian training app, enabled only when WHO standards are invoked, will use your smart watch to detect any dangerous gestures and emit a yelp or sting you abit (attachments permitting), when you are about to to perform any communicable act
-- theircompetitor, Feb 25 2020

Image processing: are you touching your face? https://www.donttouchface.com/
This is using Image analysis that runs in the background in e.g. a Chrome browser; needs camera access (duh), and ... hm, doesn't work altogether that well. It keeps thinking my nose is a hand :=/. But, you know, for a 24-hour hack, it is what it is. [jutta, Mar 12 2020]

I'm praying "giving the finger" doesn't get included in that list. I'd be speechless.
-- blissmiss, Feb 25 2020


Thisgiesmeaneenbetteridea!
-- pocmloc, Feb 25 2020


Let me get my keyboard working before I post it though...
-- pocmloc, Feb 25 2020


[blissmiss] But not action-less. <Imagines a miming/dancing fit of cursing.>

False positives are going to need AI level data sets.
-- wjt, Feb 26 2020



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