"Unless One Does the Research, It May Seem as Just a Useless Battery-Consuming App" - Field Notes on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications

Stojkovski, Borce; Abu-Salma, Ruba; Triquet, Karen; Lenzini, Gabriele

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"Unless One Does the Research, It May Seem as Just a Useless Battery-Consuming App" - Field Notes on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications

Stojkovski, Borce; Abu-Salma, Ruba; Triquet, Karen et al.

2021 • In Digital Threats: Research and Practice

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COVID-19; contact tracing; proximity tracing; human factors; user adoption

Abstract :

[en] Globally, countries have been developing contact tracing applications to control the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. In this work, we present the findings of eight focus groups we conducted with participants living in France and Germany, to explore why they decided to adopt, or not adopt, a contact tracing application as well as understand how they perceived the benefits/drawbacks and the threat model of a contact tracing application.

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- Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > Other

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Computer science

Author, co-author :

Stojkovski, Borce ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > IRiSC

Abu-Salma, Ruba

Triquet, Karen

Lenzini, Gabriele ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > IRiSC

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yes

Language :

English

Title :

"Unless One Does the Research, It May Seem as Just a Useless Battery-Consuming App" - Field Notes on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications

Publication date :

August 2021

Journal title :

Digital Threats: Research and Practice

ISSN :

2692-1626

Publisher :

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Focus Area :

Security, Reliability and Trust

Additional URL :

https://doi.org/10.1145/3480466

FnR Project :

FNR10621687 - Security And Privacy For System Protection, 2015 (01/01/2017-30/06/2023) - Sjouke Mauw

Funders :

FNR - Fonds National de la Recherche [LU]

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