Research output: Working paper
Research output: Working paper
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Beyond the Surface of Digital Contact Tracing
T2 - Delving into the Interconnected World of Technology, Individuals, and Society
AU - Hu-Bolz, Jiejun
AU - Farrahi, Katayoun
AU - Cebrian, Manuel
PY - 2023/9/1
Y1 - 2023/9/1
N2 - Digital Contact Tracing (DCT) is a great example of information systems assisting societal problems. However, privacy concerns lead to reduced DCT adoption rates. When dealing with critical societal issues, policymakers seek to use various strategies, such as interventions and financial subsidies, to steer the behavors of individuals. This causes individuals to face a sophisticated decision-making process when coping with the public health crisis and the adoption of DCT, i.e., giving up privacy and freedom to gain information to remain healthy. In this paper, we consider a scenario, where policymakers allocate rewards to individuals to motivate their compliance with the interventions; And the individuals decide the optimal compliance effort based on their health state, privacy loss, interaction with their neighbors, and rewards. To tackle the trade-off between a number of individuals and policymakers, in this paper, we propose a Leader-Followers Mean-Field Game model to analyze this time-dependent, dynamic, and large-scale decision-making problem. The numerical results demonstrate that by allocating appropriate rewards, policymakers can play a role in guiding the behavior of individuals in various scenarios.
AB - Digital Contact Tracing (DCT) is a great example of information systems assisting societal problems. However, privacy concerns lead to reduced DCT adoption rates. When dealing with critical societal issues, policymakers seek to use various strategies, such as interventions and financial subsidies, to steer the behavors of individuals. This causes individuals to face a sophisticated decision-making process when coping with the public health crisis and the adoption of DCT, i.e., giving up privacy and freedom to gain information to remain healthy. In this paper, we consider a scenario, where policymakers allocate rewards to individuals to motivate their compliance with the interventions; And the individuals decide the optimal compliance effort based on their health state, privacy loss, interaction with their neighbors, and rewards. To tackle the trade-off between a number of individuals and policymakers, in this paper, we propose a Leader-Followers Mean-Field Game model to analyze this time-dependent, dynamic, and large-scale decision-making problem. The numerical results demonstrate that by allocating appropriate rewards, policymakers can play a role in guiding the behavior of individuals in various scenarios.
KW - Digital contact tracing
KW - Game theory
KW - dynamic decision making
U2 - 10.36227/techrxiv.24064893.v1
DO - 10.36227/techrxiv.24064893.v1
M3 - Working paper
BT - Beyond the Surface of Digital Contact Tracing
ER -