Wearables to Fight COVID-19: From Symptom Tracking to Contact Tracing
Oliver Amft, Luis I. Lopera González, Paul Lukowicz, Sizhen Bian, Paul Burggraf
Abstract
The new Coronavirus pandemic has promoted the new development of mobile and wearable computing in unprecedented ways. We discuss how on-body devices can help to fight the pandemic and may stay as a toolset to effectively deal with infectious diseases in the future.
Topics & Concepts
Wearable computerPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Computer scienceContact tracingTracingWearable technologyCoronavirusUbiquitous computing2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Human–computer interactionInternet privacyComputer securityInfectious disease (medical specialty)VirologyEmbedded systemMedicinePathologyDiseaseOutbreakOperating systemMobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsCOVID-19 Digital Contact TracingDigital Mental Health Interventions