Digital contact tracing applications instill public fear as they store large amounts of user information. Problems often arise as users are unsure of how their data is stored. Due to this, people are less likely to download these COVID-19 tracking applications and they become non-reliable for contact tracing. This report outlines our solution to this problem: an application that is not “scary” and intimidating for the public to use. In this project, not “scary” is defined as collecting as little user data as possible, transferring data using best encryption practices, not visually overwhelming to the user, and limiting the potential for bad actors to misuse information. To develop this application, we researched security protocols, user interface best practices, and ways to present data in easy-to-understand terminology. We then compiled this research to create Bubbles, our groundbreaking method of sharing self-reported COVID-19 information within close-knit groups, or “bubbles.”

• 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

• Caira, Alexis
• Labbe, Eva

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042722-222024
• 64806

Mot-clé

• application
• contact tracing
• mobile
• covid-19
• ios
• adroid

Advisor

• Lewis, Kevin
• Walls, Robert Joseph
• Schaumont, Patrick R.
• Mangoubi, Oren Rami

Year

• 2022

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not Specified

Date created

• 2022-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright