Mobile Applications and Covid-19 Pandemic Control

Sandro Serpa and Carlos Miguel Ferreira
University of the Azores

Abstract

The pandemic caused by COVID-19, has motivated a profound mutation in the way people are expected to interact with each other. Considering that technologically mobile applications are being developed as software to be used generally in mobile phones or smartphones that will allow, according to their advocates, to record, analyze and inform both users and health authorities by providing information to enable them to take decisions and measures deemed appropriate. These applications, in principle according to the public, can be downloaded free of charge, for the most part, if this is the user's wish, always on a voluntary basis. This communication seeks to discuss the relationship between mobile applications for recording interactions and physical (or considered social) proximity and the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the social, political, economic and ethical aspects involved.


Download Proceedings Book


Presentation