Exploring User-Uptake of Digital Contact Tracing Apps - A Practitioner Guide - Module 7. User Uptake Factors - Ind & Comm Levels.pdf

This module aims to explore the individual- and community-level factors identified in our research in more depth through comparative analysis across case studies. We explore three factors – 1) Perceptions of Data Collection & Management; 2) Sense of Community; and 3) Communications & Misinformation – identified as potential influencers of app-uptake at the individual (micro) and community (meso) levels as well as at the intersection of the community-system (meso-macro) levels. Discussion will begin with a brief summary of user-uptake across case studies to provide context. We then briefly describe how each factor fits within each level of analysis before exploring the research findings across the five case studies. We then situate these findings within the global scope (i.e. what these factors look like beyond the case studies) alongside broader discussion and emerging research on D-CT uptake in relation to risk and benefit perception.