Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

Background Digital contact tracing apps have the potential to augment contact tracing
systems and disrupt COVID-19 transmission by rapidly identifying secondary cases prior to …

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 …

To combat the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, many new ways have been proposed on how to
automate the process of finding infected people, also called contact tracing. A special focus …

Understanding how people interact and socialize is important in many contexts from disease
control to urban planning. Datasets that capture this specific aspect of human life have …

Mobile applications that sense continuously, such as location monitoring, are emerging.
Despite their usefulness, their adoption in real-world deployment situations has been …

With an increasing number of organizations allowing personal smart phones onto their
networks, considerable security risk is introduced. The security risk is exacerbated by the …

Over the past few years, smartphones have emerged as one of the most popular
mechanisms for accessing content across the Internet driving considerable research to …

Estimating the distance between two smartphones plays an important role in a host of
applications. For this purpose, smartphones emit and scan for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) …

Social interactions, spending time together, and relationships are important for individuals'
well-being, with people feeling happier when they spend more time with others. So far, most …