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Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Dowthwaite, L., Fischer, J., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Nichele, E., Goulden, M., & McAuley, D. Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study

Background:
Digital contact tracing is employed to monitor and manage the spread of COVID-19. However, to be effective the system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population. Studies of mostly hypothetical contact tracing apps show... Read More about Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study.

The impact of algorithmic decision-making processes on young people’s well-being (Preprint) (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Perez Vallejos, E., Dowthwaite, L., Creswich, H., Portillo, V., Koene, A., Jirotka, M., …McAuley, D. The impact of algorithmic decision-making processes on young people’s well-being (Preprint)

Background:
Algorithms rule the online environments and are essential for performing data processing, filtering, personalisation and other tasks. Research has shown that children and young people make up a significant proportion of Internet users, h... Read More about The impact of algorithmic decision-making processes on young people’s well-being (Preprint).