In early 2020, COVID-19 swept the world into a global pandemic. We worked with professors and students at Tsinghua University and Wuhan University of Technology to study how mobile apps were used to combat COVID-19 in China. We conducted surveys and expert interviews in order to understand the role of mobile applications in China’s COVID-19 response. Our results suggested that the role of mobile applications should be to assist public health officials, inform citizens, protect users private data, and be adaptable to their specific situation.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Jia, Xianhan
• Skinner, Samuel P.
• Yang, William Bo
• Claude, Isabelle

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-071020-231425

Keyword

• Health Care and Technology

Advisor

• Liang, Jianyu

Year

• 2020

Center

• Beijing, China Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Professor Hui Zhang and Professor Xianfeng Chen

Date created

• 2020-07-10

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright