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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Public Health policies related to social distancing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic helped slow the infection rate. However, individual-level factors associated with social distancing are largely unknown.
Andrea E. Cassidy-Bushrow +10 more
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Lire Journal, 2020 This study discusses the collocation of the words 'social distancing' and 'physical distancing'. Both of these phrases are new words that emerge during the current condition of COVID-19, which has a general definition of interference to prevent ...
Audina Oktaviana
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GROUP TESTING AND SOCIAL DISTANCING [PDF]
National Institute Economic Review, 2021 An often overlooked strategy for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic is group testing. Its main advantage is that it can scale, enabling the regular testing of the whole population. We argue that another advantage is that it can induce social distancing.
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Social Distancing via Social Scheduling
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2023 Motivated by the need for social distancing during a pandemic, we consider an approach to schedule the visitors of a facility (e.g., a general store). Our algorithms take input from the citizens and schedule the store's discrete time-slots based on their importance in visiting the facility. We consider indivisible customer job requests that take single
Deepesh Kumar Lall +2 more
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Social distancing is a social dilemma game played by every individual against his/her population
PLoS ONE, 2021 Since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing has been known to everyone and recommended almost everywhere everyday. Social distancing has been and will be one of the most effective measures and sometimes, the only available one ...
Zhijun Wu
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JMIR Medical Informatics, 2022 BackgroundThe availability of large-scale and fine-grained aggregated mobility data has allowed researchers to observe the dynamics of social distancing behaviors at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Zeyu Lyu, Hiroki Takikawa
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Social Distancing Network Creation
Algorithmica, 2023 AbstractDuring a pandemic people have to find a trade-off between meeting others and staying safely at home. While meeting others is pleasant, it also increases the risk of infection. We consider this dilemma by introducing a game-theoretic network creation model in which selfish agents can form bilateral connections.
Friedrich, Tobias +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Face masks have been widely employed as a personal protective measure during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, concerns remain that masks create a false sense of security that reduces adherence to other public health measures, including social distancing ...
Lasse S. Liebst +4 more
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Restaurant employees' attitudinal reactions to social distancing difficulties : a multi-wave study [PDF]
, 2022 Purpose Grounded in the job demands–resources (JD-R) theory, this study investigates how the difficulty in social distancing at work, resulting from the COVID-19 crisis, may lead to intention to quit and career regret and how and when these effects ...
Wilkinson, A. +7 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Social distancing policies work in different ways and at different levels. In addition, various forms of monitoring systems have been implemented in different countries.
Suin Seo +3 more
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