California releases smartphone virus tool as cases soar

AP, Dec. 8, 2020

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UCI Podcast Video Series: TrackCOVID smartphone app

In this episode of the UCI Podcast Video Series, Tyler Yasaka, a software engineer and junior specialist in otolaryngology at the UCI School of Medicine, and Dr. Ronald Sahyouni, a biomedical engineer in UCI’s joint M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program and an incoming neurosurgery resident at UC San Diego, discuss how and why they created […]

Can smartphone apps track COVID-19 without violating your privacy?

Popular Science, April 17, 2020

UCI team develops smartphone application for coronavirus contact tracing

Medical Xpress, April 15, 2020

UCI team develops smartphone application for coronavirus contact tracing

Technology anonymously notifies users of potential exposure to COVID-19

Smartphones act as digital security blankets in stressful social situations

Possession, not use, of a mobile phone counteracts feelings of isolation, UCI-led study finds

Phu Nguyen, Soroosh Sorooshian and Kuo-lin Hsu

UCI introduces iRain smartphone app

Data used by agencies worldwide is now freely available

Smartphone network could track incoming cosmic rays, UCI-led research finds

Your smartphone could become part of the world’s largest telescope. A team led by UC Irvine physicist Daniel Whiteson and UC Davis physicist Michael Mulhearn has designed an app to turn the global network of smartphones into a planet-sized cosmic ray detector, according to a paper posted today to the physics website arXiv.

UCI app safely stores DNA on smartphones

UC Irvine computer scientists have created an app that could allow an individual to securely store and use his or her own DNA on a smartphone. GenoDroid, they said, could potentially be used for paternity and common-ancestry tests, customized cancer-fighting drugs and more.

Melissa Mazmanian

Studying the role of smartphones in daily life

UCI professors study how busy families use smartphones.