TY - GEN
T1 - Cultural Influences on Chinese Citizens' Adoption of Digital Contact Tracing
T2 - 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
AU - Lyu, Yao
AU - Carroll, John M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/4/29
Y1 - 2022/4/29
N2 - Digital contact tracing is an ICT approach for controlling public health crises. It identifies users' risk of infection based on their healthcare and travel information. In the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries implemented digital contact tracing to contain the coronavirus outbreak. However, the adoption rates vary significantly across different countries. In this study, we investigate Chinese people's adoption of digital contact tracing. We aim at finding the influence of Chinese culture on people's attitudes and behaviors toward the technology. We interviewed 26 Chinese participants and used thematic analysis to interpret the data. Our findings showed that Chinese culture shaped citizens' interactions with the digital contact tracing at multiple levels; driven by the culture, Chinese citizens accepted digital contact tracing and contributed to making digital contact tracing a socio-technical infrastructure of people's daily lives. We also discuss such cultural influences with the growing literature of human infrastructure and crisis informatics.
AB - Digital contact tracing is an ICT approach for controlling public health crises. It identifies users' risk of infection based on their healthcare and travel information. In the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries implemented digital contact tracing to contain the coronavirus outbreak. However, the adoption rates vary significantly across different countries. In this study, we investigate Chinese people's adoption of digital contact tracing. We aim at finding the influence of Chinese culture on people's attitudes and behaviors toward the technology. We interviewed 26 Chinese participants and used thematic analysis to interpret the data. Our findings showed that Chinese culture shaped citizens' interactions with the digital contact tracing at multiple levels; driven by the culture, Chinese citizens accepted digital contact tracing and contributed to making digital contact tracing a socio-technical infrastructure of people's daily lives. We also discuss such cultural influences with the growing literature of human infrastructure and crisis informatics.
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U2 - 10.1145/3491102.3517572
DO - 10.1145/3491102.3517572
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130548593
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 30 April 2022 through 5 May 2022
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