Wearable dongles and transport cards can be used to supplement contact tracing efforts

Department of Information Systems & Analytics, Faculty, News Media

To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the Singapore government released the contact tracing app, TraceTogether, which has been downloaded by approximately 20 per cent of the population. However, this is still far below from the recommended 75 percent adoption rate.

Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli discussed how wearable dongles can be used to supplement contact tracing efforts.

Lianhe Zaobao, 10 May 2020

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