How often do you touch your face?
The first Apple Watch app to bring awareness to face touching
A.I. + Apple Watch = better Awareness
Beeps and vibrates when you touch your face
Our algorithms detect the location of your hand in real time.
Intended to promote conscious awareness of face-touching, this Apple Watch app has hour-long ‘training’ periods in which it detects if your watch-wearing hand comes near your face.
About Face Touch Aware
On average, adults unintentionally touch their faces several times every hour. This App is intended to promote conscious awareness of face-touching, and detects if your Watch-wearing hand moves near your face. This functionality is available in hour-long training-periods in which the App buzzes and counts whenever a face-touch is detected.
This product is not a medical device nor does it claim to diagnose, measure, or treat any condition. It is simply designed to provide awareness and information about your habits for your own use. This app does not function all day long; the window is 1 hour unless reset.
Face Touch Aware Details
- The app automatically vibrates and makes a sound when it detects that you have touched your face. In Settings, you can adjust the vibration strength and the volume separately (for example, if you want alerts to vibrate but not play sound).
- The training session lasts 1 hour in the background, which is an Apple Watch limit for all apps. Navigate back to the FaceTouchAware App and touch the screen to extend the session.
- If the App is not detecting enough of your face-touches, you can increase the sensitivity.
- For clarity, the app does not notify you before your hand touches your face, but typically after. It is meant to increase awareness of face-touching.
- Press the Play/Pause button to pause the App. The screen will turn yellow and the App will stop alerting you when you touch your face. Press play/pause again to resume detection; the screen will turn green.
Note that the app will not alert you more than every 3 seconds. So if you touch your face three times in a row quickly, the app will alert you only once. This is both an Apple Internal Software Limit (no app will alert a user more than once every 3 seconds), and also to avoid annoying app users with continuous beeping.
Directions for Use
- Prior to use, adjust the watch orientation settings on your iPhone apple watch app.
- Press the Play/Pause button to start. The screen will turn green and the App will start alerting you when you touch your face. Press play/pause again to pause detection; the screen will turn yellow.
- If the App is not detecting enough of your face-touches, increase the sensitivity. Note: the App may start detecting some non-face touches as face touches as the sensitivity increases.
- If you want alerts to vibrate but not play sound, you can turn down Alert Volume in Settings >> Sound & Haptics.
- Best performance is with the watch on the right wrist, with the digital crown facing right.
- Because of Apple Software limits, the training session will only last a maximum of 1 hour. After this time limit, you must relaunch the App. We will send you a notification a few minutes before expiration.
- If the App stopped detecting face-touches, try pressing pause and play to restart it.
- Does not work while lying down
- We don’t alert you more than every 3 seconds, so we don’t annoy you
Keep track of your habit
- Is this physical therapy changing your movement habits? Face Touch Aware lists the number of times you've touched your face since you last paused it.
TEAM
Sara Vaughn, MD
Sara Vaughn, MD
Sara Vaughn, MD
Dr. Sara Vaughn attended college at Rice University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Psychology. She then completed medical school at the University of Texas in Houston. After completing her Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, Dr. Vaughn went on to complete her fellowship in Repro
Dr. Sara Vaughn attended college at Rice University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Psychology. She then completed medical school at the University of Texas in Houston. After completing her Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, Dr. Vaughn went on to complete her fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Stanford University.
While at Stanford she was an innovator and a leader. She developed a resident infertility clinic to improve access to care for more patients and support further resident education. Additionally, she designed Stanford’s initial research trials to understand the role of the human microbiome in reproduction and in-vitro fertilization.
Don Vaughn, PhD
Sara Vaughn, MD
Sara Vaughn, MD
Dr. Don Vaughn is a neuroscientist, futurist, and international public speaker. His foci include human perception, augmented performance, empathic bias, and machine learning. Since graduating from Stanford, Dr. Vaughn’s research has been featured on ABC, ESPN, TIME magazine, and the X-Games. Over a million people have viewed his TEDx talk
Dr. Don Vaughn is a neuroscientist, futurist, and international public speaker. His foci include human perception, augmented performance, empathic bias, and machine learning. Since graduating from Stanford, Dr. Vaughn’s research has been featured on ABC, ESPN, TIME magazine, and the X-Games. Over a million people have viewed his TEDx talk “neurohacking: rewiring your brain”. He has been an opinion leader for a range of news outlets including The Wall Street Journal and NBC News.
Robin Farmanfarmaian
Robin Farmanfarmaian
Robin Farmanfarmaian
Robin Farmanfarmaian is a professional speaker, entrepreneur and angel investor working on companies poised to impact 100M people or more. She has been involved with over 20 early stage startups working on cutting edge technology in biotech, pharma, med device, and digital health. As a speaker, Robin has had over 140 speaking engagements
Robin Farmanfarmaian is a professional speaker, entrepreneur and angel investor working on companies poised to impact 100M people or more. She has been involved with over 20 early stage startups working on cutting edge technology in biotech, pharma, med device, and digital health. As a speaker, Robin has had over 140 speaking engagements in 13 countries, and is the author of 3 books; “The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer” (2015); "The Thought Leader Formula: Strategically Leverage Your Expertise to Drive Business & Career Goals" (2019); “Facilitating Virtual Events: Driving Participant Engagement & Interaction” (2020).
David Eagleman, PhD
Robin Farmanfarmaian
Robin Farmanfarmaian
Dr. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author, TED speaker, and Guggenheim Fellow. He is the writer and presenter of The Brain, an Emmy-nominated television series that asks what it means to be human from a neuroscientist's point of view. He teaches at Stanford University, runs a neurotechnology company (Neose
Dr. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author, TED speaker, and Guggenheim Fellow. He is the writer and presenter of The Brain, an Emmy-nominated television series that asks what it means to be human from a neuroscientist's point of view. He teaches at Stanford University, runs a neurotechnology company (Neosensory), and directs the Center for Science and Law. He is the author of eight books, including international bestsellers Sum and Incognito, and his newest book Livewired.