WHY WEARABLES? Researchers and health policy managers turned to smartphones and on-body devices mostly for their ubiquity, i.e., to offer health and safety-related information to a large share of the population or gather patient responses. Yet, smartphones and wearables enable fast data and information flow, which is particularly relevant for the rapid infectious character of SARS-CoV-2. We observe that continuous sensor and behavior data of smartphones and on-body devices are important as virus testing is associated with effort, cost, and provides only one-time information, and global immunization is still far away. We focus here on already existing and newly created wearable devices and smartphone apps for everyday use, but we exclude clinical and laboratory measurement systems, e.g., for heart and respiratory assessment. For researchers and public health authorities, symptom screening and tracking based on continuous sensor data from wearables and smartphones can Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPRV.2020.3021321

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对抗 COVID-19 的可穿戴设备：从症状追踪到接触者追踪

为什么是可穿戴设备？研究人员和卫生政策管理者转向智能手机和随身设备主要是因为它们无处不在，即向大部分人口提供健康和安全相关信息或收集患者反应。然而，智能手机和可穿戴设备实现了快速的数据和信息流，这与 SARS-CoV-2 的快速传染特性特别相关。我们观察到智能手机和随身设备的连续传感器和行为数据非常重要，因为病毒检测与工作量、成本相关，并且只能提供一次性信息，而全球免疫仍然很遥远。我们在这里专注于现有和新创建的日常使用的可穿戴设备和智能手机应用程序，但我们不包括临床和实验室测量系统，例如用于心脏和呼吸系统评估的系统。