Project Description:

Information privacy continues to be a growing concern for businesses and individuals who store and use their information on a personal computer. Though most news reports give credence to the threat of hackers and viral attacks to computer-based information, another threat comes from the very display of information on the computer?s monitor.

"Privacy In Motion," is an application that allows a user to specify applications on his or her computer to be minimized, maximized, or closed when a video motion or keyboard event is triggered. Through the use of the Windows API, the application continuously compares aliased images captured from a standard webcam and raises events when the detected motion exceeds a given tolerance. The Windows API is used again, this time to minimize, maximize, or close Windows processes listening to the motion events.