Publications

Rokwire Project. “Let’s Make Smart Communities a Reality.” White paper. May 2021.

An interdisciplinary team from the Smart, Healthy Communities Initiative at the University of Illinois is building Rokwire: an open source digital ecosystem for mobile devices to enable the smart, healthy communities of the future. It integrates a community’s digital resources and delivers them all on mobile. Our goal is to enhance human capabilities; to create healthier, safer, more equitable, sustainable places; to foster better decision-making; and to fuel innovation.

Vikram Sharma Mailthody et al. “Safer Illinois and RokWall: Privacy Preserving University Health Apps for COVID-19.” March 2021. Preprint.

This paper analyzes two computing infrastructures (Safer Illinois and RokWall) under development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to track and mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Ranoa, Diana Rose E., et al. “Mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission at a Large Public University.” MedRxiv, June 9, 2022. Nature Communications 13, art. 3207. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.21261548.

In fall 2020, universities saw extensive transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among their populations, threatening the health of the university and surrounding communities and viability of in-person instruction. Here we report a case study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where a multimodal “SHIELD: Target, Test, and Tell” program, with other nonpharmaceutical interventions, was employed to keep classrooms and laboratories open.