The integration of infectious disease modeling with the data collection process is crucial to
reach its maximum potential, and remains a significant research challenge. Ensuring a solid …

Contact tracing is widely considered as an effective procedure in the fight against epidemic
diseases. However, one of the challenges for technology based contact tracing is the high …

Mobile applications are being developed for automated logging of contacts via Bluetooth to
help scale up digital contact tracing efforts in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 …

Today's societies are enveloped in an ever-growing telecommunication infrastructure. This
infrastructure offers important opportunities for sensing and recording a multitude of human …

Mobile phones provide a powerful sensing platform that researchers may adopt to
understand proximity interactions among people and the diffusion, through these …

Contact tracing is an important technique to reduce the impact of infectious diseases in
smart cities. Smart phones equipped proximity sensors can be used to enable contact …

In this work we propose a WiFi colocation methodology for digital contact tracing. The
approach works by having a device scan and store nearby access point information to …

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the necessity for rapid contact tracing as a
means to effectively suppress the spread of infectious diseases. Existing contact tracing …

Proximity estimation forms the backbone of contact tracing solutions, as quarantining
potentially infected individuals is essential for controlling the spread of epidemics. It is also …

The availability of “always-on” communications has tremendous implications for how people
interact socially. In particular, sociologists are interested in the question if such pervasive …