Digital Contact Tracing Apps for COVID-19: Development of a Citizen-Centered Evaluation Framework.

Background: The silent transmission of COVID-19 has led to an exponential growth of fatal infections. With over 4 million deaths worldwide, the need to control and stem transmission has never been more critical. New COVID-19 vaccines offer hope.

Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature.

Background: Digital contact tracing apps have the potential to augment contact tracing systems and disrupt COVID-19 transmission by rapidly identifying secondary cases prior to the onset of infectiousness and linking them into a system of quarantine, testing, and health care worker case management. The international experience of digital contact tracing apps during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how challenging their design and deployment are.

Objective: This study aims to derive and summarize best practice guidance for the design of the ideal digital contact tracing app.

Sentiment analysis of user feedback on the HSE's Covid-19 contact tracing app.

Background: Digital Contact Tracing is seen as a key tool in reducing the propagation of Covid-19. But it requires high uptake and continued participation across the population to be effective. To achieve sufficient uptake/participation, health authorities should address, and thus be aware of, user concerns.

A national survey of attitudes to COVID-19 digital contact tracing in the Republic of Ireland.

Background: Contact tracing remains a critical part of controlling COVID-19 spread. Many countries have developed novel software applications (Apps) in an effort to augment traditional contact tracing methods.

Aim: Conduct a national survey of the Irish population to examine barriers and levers to the use of a contact tracing App.