shankari / covid-19-tracing-projects

Crowdsourced list of projects related to COVID-19 contact tracing
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Add link to paper #20

Closed tyleryasaka closed 4 years ago

tyleryasaka commented 4 years ago

Peer-to-Peer Contact Tracing: Development of a Privacy-Preserving Smartphone App http://doi.org/10.2196/18936

shankari commented 4 years ago

Looks cool! Are the checkpoints currently entered manually? It doesn't look like you have any sensing built into the app...

tyleryasaka commented 4 years ago

Thanks! Yes they are done manually. There are also "public checkpoints" which are QR codes that could be displayed at entrances to public places and quickly scanned with an ordinary smartphone camera (no app download or signup required, essentially takes 10 seconds).

My philosophy is to utilize social participation to drive adoption. Because it's a publicly visible and social activity, it's possible that this activity could become a social norm which would hopefully drive high adoption, as opposed to GPS- or Bluetooth-based methods which have no accountability (nobody will ever know if you're not participating).

shankari commented 4 years ago

I think that your point about social participation is well taken. Although, for the background sensed methods, you could have an "I'm COVID Aware" sticker on the phone, similar to "I voted" :)

tyleryasaka commented 4 years ago

True!