Wearables to Fight COVID-19: From Symptom Tracking to Contact Tracing

Oliver Amft, Luis Ignacio Lopera Gonzalez, Paul Lukowicz, Sizhen Bian, Paul Burggraf

Abstract: The new Coronavirus pandemic has promoted the new development of mobile and wearable computing in unprecedented ways. We discuss how on-body devices can help to fight the pandemic and may stay as a toolset to effectively deal with infectious diseases in the future.