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A number of groups, from governments to non-profits, have quickly acted to innovate the contact-tracing process: they are designing, building, and launching contact-tracing apps in response to the COVID-19 crisis. A diverse range of…

Digital contact tracing has been deployed as a public health intervention to help suppress the spread of COVID-19 in many jurisdictions. However, most governments have struggled with low uptake and participation rates, limiting the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Andrew Tzer-Yeu Chen , Kimberly Thio

There is growing interest in technology-enabled contact tracing, the process of identifying potentially infected COVID-19 patients by notifying all recent contacts of an infected person. Governments, technology companies, and research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Lucy Simko , Ryan Calo , Franziska Roesner , Tadayoshi Kohno

Digital contact tracing is a public health intervention. It should be integrated with local health policy, provide rapid and accurate notifications to exposed individuals, and encourage high app uptake and adherence to quarantine. Real-time…

There is growing use of technology-enabled contact tracing, the process of identifying potentially infected COVID-19 patients by notifying all recent contacts of an infected person. Governments, technology companies, and research groups…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Lucy Simko , Jack Lucas Chang , Maggie Jiang , Ryan Calo , Franziska Roesner , Tadayoshi Kohno

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many countries to deploy novel digital contact tracing (DCT) systems to boost the efficiency of manual tracing of infection chains. In this paper, we systematically analyze DCT solutions and categorize them…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Thien Duc Nguyen , Markus Miettinen , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Ivan Visconti

The goal of this paper is to shed some light on the usefulness of a contact tracing smartphone app for the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic. We review the basics of contact tracing during the spread of a virus, we contextualize the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Leonardo Maccari , Valeria Cagno

Contact tracing has existed in various forms for a very long time. With the rise of COVID-19, the concept has become increasingly important to help slow the spread of the virus. One approach to modernizing contact tracing is to introduce…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Lucas Draper

Coronavirus disease 2019, i.e. COVID-19 has imposed the public health measure of keeping social distancing for preventing mass transmission of COVID-19. For monitoring the social distancing and keeping the trace of transmission, we are…

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted countries around the world to introduce smartphone apps to support disease control efforts. Their purposes range from digital contact tracing to quarantine enforcement to vaccination passports, and their…

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the first epidemic in human history in which digital contact-tracing has been deployed at a global scale. Tracking and quarantining all the contacts of individuals who test positive to a virus can help…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-26 Aleix Bassolas , Andrea Santoro , Sandro Sousa , Silvia Rognone , Vincenzo Nicosia

Contact tracing systems control the spread of disease by discovering the set of people an infectious individual has come into contact with. Students are often mobile and sociable and therefore can contribute to the spread of disease.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Dave Murray-Rust , Luis Soares , Katya Gorkovenko , John Rooksby

The currently deployed contact-tracing mobile apps have failed as an efficient solution in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. None of them has managed to attract the number of active users required to achieve an efficient operation. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-29 José González-Cabañas , Ángel Cuevas , Rubén Cuevas , Martin Maier

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed several weaknesses in the public health infrastructure, including supply chain mechanisms and public health ICT systems. The expansion of testing and contact tracing has been key to identifying and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Maria N. Anastasiadou , Philippos Isaia , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos Charalambous

The current COVID-19 pandemic highlights the utility of contact tracing, when combined with case isolation and social distancing, as an important tool for mitigating the spread of a disease [1]. Contact tracing provides a mechanism of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Jack K. Fitzsimons , Atul Mantri , Robert Pisarczyk , Tom Rainforth , Zhikuan Zhao

Digital contact tracing has emerged as a viable tool supplementing manual contact tracing. To date, more than 100 contact tracing applications have been published to slow down the spread of highly contagious Covid-19. Despite subtle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Pai Chet Ng , Petros Spachos , Stefano Gregori , Konstantinos Plataniotis

Contact tracing apps have become one of the main approaches to control and slow down the spread of COVID-19 and ease up lockdown measures. While these apps can be very effective in stopping the transmission chain and saving lives, their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Dana Naous , Manus Bonner , Mathias Humbert , Christine Legner

Contact tracing has historically been used to retard the spread of infectious diseases, but if it is exercised by hand in large-scale, it is known to be a resource-intensive and quite deficient process. Nowadays, digital contact tracing has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Vasileios Kouliaridis , Georgios Kambourakis , Efstratios Chatzoglou , Dimitrios Geneiatakis , Hua Wang

Contact tracing is being widely employed to combat the spread of COVID-19. Many apps have been developed that allow for tracing to be done automatically based off location and interaction data generated by users. There are concerns,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-09 James Bell , David Butler , Chris Hicks , Jon Crowcroft

To address the massive spike in uncertainties triggered by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), there is an ever-increasing number of national governments that are rolling out contact-tracing Apps to aid the containment of the virus. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Jinfeng Li , Xinyi Guo