Problem: Contact tracing apps have emerged as an important tool to slow the spread of transmittable diseases. Despite this, there was low global adoption. As such, it is important to understand the perceptions that various cultures have regarding these technologies.
Actual Research Studies: This is an old project which is no longer active in the lab.
Citations from our Lab:
- Smith, G., Chapman, K., Weng, T. Y., Hao, H., Mondal, M., Smith, S., ... & Page, X. (2025, April). A House Divided: How US Politics Could Shape Contact-Tracing Adoption in Future Pandemics. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20).
- Chapman, K., Klimes, M., Wellman, B., Smith, G., Mondal, M., Smith, S., ... & Page, X. (2022, November). A privacy paradox? Impact of privacy concerns on willingness to disclose covid-19 health status in the United States. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 159-162).
- Chapman, K., Klimes, M., Wellman, B., Smith, G., Bonham, M., Chen, Y., ... & Page, X. " Others Have the Right to Know": Determinants of Willingness to Share COVID-19-Related Health Symptoms.