Attitudes towards COVID-19 contact tracing apps

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2023

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Department of Computer Science
Trinity College Dublin
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en

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17
16509-16525

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IEEE Access, Volume 11

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To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, countries around the world have implemented a range of measures and virus containment strategies, including digital contact-tracing (DCT) in the form of smartphone apps. While early studies showed a high level of acceptability of such technologies, the adoption rates vary greatly between countries after contact-tracing apps became available to download. This cross-national user survey (n=871) aims to explore public attitudes and factors that affect user acceptability and adoption of contact-tracing apps in the USA, UK, and the Republic of Ireland, which employ similar underlying technology, but have uneven adoption rates. The results indicate interactions between public trust in actors and institutions communicating COVID-related information and releasing such technologies and installation decisions. Beyond the immediate case of contact tracing, our findings hold implications for the deployment and communicative framing of technology for public health and the public good and inform design of crisis response public health information systems.

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Tallennetaan OA-artikkeli, kun julkaistu / KS

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Coronaviruses, COVID-19, crisis informatics, digital contact tracing, exposure notification, Manuals, mHealth, online survey, Pandemics, Public healthcare, public views, quantitative methods, Sociology, Statistics

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10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3136649

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Nurgalieva , L , Ryan , S & Doherty , G 2023 , ' Attitudes towards COVID-19 contact tracing apps : a cross-national survey ' , IEEE Access , vol. 11 , pp. 16509-16525 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3136649

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