AIMC Topic: Physical Distancing

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Measuring and Preventing COVID-19 Using the SIR Model and Machine Learning in Smart Health Care.

Journal of healthcare engineering
COVID-19 presents an urgent global challenge because of its contagious nature, frequently changing characteristics, and the lack of a vaccine or effective medicines. A model for measuring and preventing the continued spread of COVID-19 is urgently re...

The potential of socially assistive robots during infectious disease outbreaks.

Science robotics
Robots have a role in addressing the secondary impacts of infectious disease outbreaks by helping us sustain social distancing, monitoring and improving mental health, supporting education, and aiding in economic recovery.

Risk of a second wave of Covid-19 infections: using artificial intelligence to investigate stringency of physical distancing policies in North America.

International orthopaedics
PURPOSE: Accurately forecasting the occurrence of future covid-19-related cases across relaxed (Sweden) and stringent (USA and Canada) policy contexts has a renewed sense of urgency. Moreover, there is a need for a multidimensional county-level appro...

What drives the effectiveness of social distancing in combating COVID-19 across U.S. states?

PloS one
We propose a new theory of information-based voluntary social distancing in which people's responses to disease prevalence depend on the credibility of reported cases and fatalities and vary locally. We embed this theory into a new pandemic predictio...

Can occupational therapy manpower be replaced with social robots in a singing group during COVID-19?

Work (Reading, Mass.)
BACKGROUND: Prior to the COVID-19 global health emergency, reducing direct contacts between therapists and patients is an important issue, and could be achieved by using robots to perform certain caring activities.