{"title":"Pandemic Preparedness With Pervasive Computing","authors":"Oliver Amft, Hassan Ghasemzadeh","doi":"10.1109/mprv.2023.3329556","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated pervasive computing research and development resulting in new, impactful public health tools, including digital contact tracing, crowd dynamics analysis, and symptom tracking, which are broadly recognized by the public and expert groups alike. In the post-COVID age, focus has shifted to establish a level of pandemic preparedness. Across all preparedness measures, there is the need for interoperable data, pervasive computing tools, and data analysis methods. Considering the open technical challenges, further pervasive computing research is a key to fill the opportunity created over the last years and eventually save more lives at global scale. In this special issue, we capture new technical approaches to the pervasive tool inventory that help dealing with a pandemic situation, but also investigations that highlight opportunities for further research. We aim to motivate continued research and discussion of new ideas on pervasive computing for public health tools that spurs pandemic preparedness.","PeriodicalId":55021,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pervasive Computing","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Pervasive Computing","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mprv.2023.3329556","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated pervasive computing research and development resulting in new, impactful public health tools, including digital contact tracing, crowd dynamics analysis, and symptom tracking, which are broadly recognized by the public and expert groups alike. In the post-COVID age, focus has shifted to establish a level of pandemic preparedness. Across all preparedness measures, there is the need for interoperable data, pervasive computing tools, and data analysis methods. Considering the open technical challenges, further pervasive computing research is a key to fill the opportunity created over the last years and eventually save more lives at global scale. In this special issue, we capture new technical approaches to the pervasive tool inventory that help dealing with a pandemic situation, but also investigations that highlight opportunities for further research. We aim to motivate continued research and discussion of new ideas on pervasive computing for public health tools that spurs pandemic preparedness.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Pervasive Computing explores the role of computing in the physical world–as characterized by visions such as the Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Computing. Designed for researchers, practitioners, and educators, this publication acts as a catalyst for realizing the ideas described by Mark Weiser in 1988. The essence of this vision is the creation of environments saturated with sensing, computing, and wireless communication that gracefully support the needs of individuals and society. Many key building blocks for this vision are now viable commercial technologies: wearable and handheld computers, wireless networking, location sensing, Internet of Things platforms, and so on. However, the vision continues to present deep challenges for experts in areas such as hardware design, sensor networks, mobile systems, human-computer interaction, industrial design, machine learning, data science, and societal issues including privacy and ethics. Through special issues, the magazine explores applications in areas such as assisted living, automotive systems, cognitive assistance, hardware innovations, ICT4D, manufacturing, retail, smart cities, and sustainability. In addition, the magazine accepts peer-reviewed papers of wide interest under a general call, and also features regular columns on hot topics and interviews with luminaries in the field.