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JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2452) Ethics, Privacy, and Legal Issues (479) Digital Contact Tracing, Digital Proximity Tracing, Precision Public Health (148) Participatory Epidemiology and Surveillance (119)

Published on in Vol 23, No 2 (2021): February

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/25893, first published .
The Role of Transparency, Trust, and Social Influence on Uncertainty Reduction in Times of Pandemics: Empirical Study on the Adoption of COVID-19 Tracing Apps

The Role of Transparency, Trust, and Social Influence on Uncertainty Reduction in Times of Pandemics: Empirical Study on the Adoption of COVID-19 Tracing Apps

The Role of Transparency, Trust, and Social Influence on Uncertainty Reduction in Times of Pandemics: Empirical Study on the Adoption of COVID-19 Tracing Apps

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Andreas Oldeweme1 Author Orcid Image ;   Julian Märtins1 Author Orcid Image ;   Daniel Westmattelmann1 Author Orcid Image ;   Gerhard Schewe1 Author Orcid Image
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