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.
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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
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Vedant Das Swain, Mehrab Bin Morshed, Hyeokhyen Kwon
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Ubiquitous Computing Group
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Digital Technologies to Support COVID-19 Response on Campus: A Case Study in the Use of WiFi
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[VIDEO::https://youtube.com/embed/5VBEbl_c3oA]
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