Our campus operations were abruptly shut down on March 13, 2020 due to
Covid-19, and the campus has not been the same ever since. This has
impacted our educational and research mission at Georgia Tech. On the
bright side, it has activated a number
of collaborative efforts to help Georgia Tech prepare itself for
re-opening safely. Whether or not we are successful this Fall 2020
semester, our efforts now will undoubtedly be useful for the future.
Everyone has heard about the practice of contact tracing
now, and the mad rush for digital solutions to fight against the spread
of infectious disease. The CampusLife effort in the School of
Interactive Computing (Profs. Abowd, Plötz and De Choudhury) found an
opportunity to pivot our research in this direction
We are exploring the opportunity to support manual practices of contact
tracing with information from the campus wireless network
infrastructure. I will give an overview of this effort and report on
progress to date. This is very much a work in progress,
but it demonstrates some important lessons for all of the GVU
community. First, solutions to real problems involves lots of different
skills sets and perspectives. Second, there is very interesting balance
between public health and privacy, a conversation
I hope to engage our community as a way of determining potential
solutions.
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