Lessons on mobile apps for COVID-19 from China
作者机构:Mass Academy of Math and ScienceWorcester Polytechnic Institute85 Prescott StreetWorcesterMA 01605United States Department of Computer ScienceWorcester Polytechnic Institute100 Institute RoadWorcesterMA 01609United States Department of PhysicsWorcester Polythenic Institute100 Institute RoadWorcesterMA 01609United States Department of Biomedical EngineeringWorcester Polytechnic Institute100 Institute RoadWorcesterMA 10609United States
出 版 物:《Journal of Safety Science and Resilience》 (安全科学与韧性(英文))
年 卷 期:2021年第2卷第2期
页 面:40-49页
核心收录:
学科分类:1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 08[工学] 100201[医学-内科学(含:心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术(可授工学、理学学位)] 10[医学]
基 金:The authors would like to thank the following: professors at WPI, Tsinghua University, and Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) for their guidance student researchers at WUT for their invaluable assistance in translating and disseminating our survey and all of the public safety, emergency science, and public health experts interviewed for sharing their insights and experiences
主 题:Mobile apps COVID-19 response Survey Interview Lessons
摘 要:The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the global society and human life *** countries have launched COVID-19 mobile apps with a wide range in how these apps *** it is hoped that these apps can assist in the fight against COVID-19,many are worried about user *** implemented“health codesystems,which assigned neighborhoods and citizens a specific health code,meant to indicate their risk of having been exposed to *** most widely used health code systems were hosted on the popular apps WeChat and Alipay,each with billions of *** experts argued that China’s use of mobile applications was essential to its successful combat against *** in this study are a summary of mobile technology usage in China,a review of previous studies of mobile technology in healthcare,and a brief survey of some existing mobile applications for COVID-19 that were *** included are outcomes of interviews with healthcare and public safety experts and a public survey to understand how mobile applications were used in China’s response to *** interviews revealed four important themes:personal privacy,community involvement,government involvement,and situational *** was found that a key concern was maintaining a balance between collecting and utilizing personal information,as well as protecting this *** addition,close collaboration between local communities and the national government was *** applications assisted in communication and coordination but did not replace the work of people such as delivery drivers and contact *** results also showed that there was room for improvement,especially accessibility for the elderly or those unfamiliar with *** results were obtained from our *** was interesting to find that the apps were mostly used for“accessing information on COVID-19.In addition,respondents overwhelmingly identified“informationas the most valuable featur