Introduction As there is no effective vaccine available yet, social distancing and stay at home orders are two important measures to mitigate the COVID-19 virus. The real challenge lies in ensuring that people comply with these measures for the necessary weeks and months. This project gathered real- time data in the United States to assess […]
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The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, arguably constitutes the biggest health crisis of our time. Until an effective vaccine is found, maintaining social (and physical) distance from others is the only effective remedy. Although this approach has been quite successful, the next big challenge is how to maintain social distancing, now that the pandemic has receded in some countries, but the threat of a resurge looms large.
This project applies a multidisciplinary approach (behavioral, communication, and computer science) to understand compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures, and to identify which processes contribute to this. To do so, it brings together insights from survey research, video surveillance, and media analysis. This combination provides a unique lens for monitoring compliance, and for understanding the ways to sustain and facilitate this.
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Pandemic Compliance: A systematic review of influences on social distancing behaviour during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, mitigation measures compelling people to keep a safe social distance led to a massive, unprecedented behavioural change across the globe. The present study seeks to understand what variables made people comply with such mitigation measures. It systematically reviewed 45 studies with data about compliance behaviour during the […]
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Results of the NSCR COVID-19 behavior study
Drawing on video footage of a public shopping street in Amsterdam between May 21 and June 4 2020, this study provides insight into five topics regarding social distancing compliance and face-mask behavior in public spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic. The key results are as follows: 1) Violations of the 1.5-meters distance directive are commonplace in […]
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Compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures in Israel
A new preprint by Anne Leonore de Bruijn describes the results of a survey on compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures in Israel , which we conducted at the beginning of April. The Israeli case is interesting due to (a) the country’s history of dealing with safety threats, (b) the wide-spread usage of technological surveillance to track COVID-19 […]
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