Digital Technologies to Support COVID-19 Response on Campus: A Case Study in the Use of WiFi

The Covid-19 pandemic has certainly caused a lot of disruption in how universities operate. Proactive campuses use a combination of testing, tracing, and encouraging safe practices to contain infectious spread while still maintaining some semblance of operation. In this video, we will present some work on using WiFi authentication logs to support contact tracing (identifying potential contacts) as well as understanding the impact of policy (e.g., online teaching only) on infectious spread.

Faculty Lead(s)
Gregory D. Abowd, Thomas Ploetz, Munmun De Choudhury, Lauren Steimle, Dima Nazzal, Natashia Boland, Yonatan Mintz, Aditya Prakash, Polo Chau, Alex Endert, John Stasko, Matt Sanders
Student Name(s)
Vedant Das Swain, Mehrab Bin Morshed, Hyeokhyen Kwon
Lab Name
Ubiquitous Computing Group
Video Title
Digital Technologies to Support COVID-19 Response on Campus: A Case Study in the Use of WiFi
Video URL
[VIDEO::https://youtube.com/embed/5VBEbl_c3oA]