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Deployment and Effects of an App for Tracking and Tracing Contacts during the COVID-19 Crisis
Umeå University.
Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Computer Science and Media Technology (DVMT). Malmö University, Internet of Things and People (IOTAP).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8209-0921
Umeå University.
Umeå University.
2021 (English)In: Social Simulation for a Crisis: Results and Lessons from Simulating the COVID-19 Crisis / [ed] Dignum, Frank, Cham: Springer, 2021, p. 167-188Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The general idea of tracking and tracing apps is that they track the contacts of users so that in case a user tests positive for COVID-19, all the other users that she has been in contact with get a warning signal that they have potentially been in contact with the COVID-19 virus. This is, to quarantine potential carriers of the virus even before they show symptoms. We set up a scenario in which we test the effects the introduction of such an app has on the dynamics of infection with varying amounts of app users. Running the experiments resulted in a slightly lower peak of infections for higher app usages and the total amount of infected individuals over the course of the whole run decreased not more than 10% in any case. The app seems mainly effective in decreasing contacts and infections in public spaces (except hospitals) while increasing the contacts and infections at home.

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Cham: Springer, 2021. p. 167-188
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Computational Social Sciences, ISSN 2509-9574, E-ISSN 2509-9582
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Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Computer Sciences Computer and Information Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-47268DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76397-8_7ISBN: 978-3-030-76396-1 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-76397-8 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-47268DiVA, id: diva2:1617619
Available from: 2021-12-07 Created: 2021-12-07 Last updated: 2024-08-05Bibliographically approved

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