UH professor creates app to stop you from touching your face
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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The JalapeNO! app developed for Fitbit by UH Mānoa Professor Kim Binsted.
UH Mānoa Professor Kim Binsted
Link to video and sound (details below): https://bit.ly/38UcGQC
WHO: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Professor Kim Binsted
WHY: To help people to stop touching their faces during the COVID-19 health crisis
WHAT: Developed an app called “JalapeNO!” that is available at jalapenoapp.com
WHEN: The availability of JalapeNO! for Fitbit Ionic was announced on March 12.
HOW: She is currently teaching a class on Designing for Mobile Devices in the Information Computer Sciences department, but designed JalapeNO! as a personal project.
OTHER FACTS:
Next up is developing JalapeNO! for the Apple Watch.
Binsted is also the principal investigator for the Hawaiʻi Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) Mars simulation project.
VIDEO:
BROLL: (48 seconds)
0:00-0:06: JalapeNO! app on computer screen
0:06-0:11: JalapeNO! app on Fitbit
0:11-0:17: JalapeNO! app on phone screen
0:17-0:48, 2 clips: Kim Binsted demonstrating the app
SOUND:
Kim Binsted, UH Mānoa professor (7 seconds)
“I hope it will be a fun way for people to practice good discipline when it comes to hygiene and face touching.”
Binsted (11 seconds)
“I teach design for mobile computing here at the University of Hawaiʻi and what we often do is we brainstorm around a problem and think about how could mobile devices help with that problem.”