The University of Cambridge invites you to participate in the FluPhone Pilot Study
We would like to invite you to participate in the pilot period of the FluPhone study, an experiment being conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge, the University of Liverpool and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
This study is concerned
with social encounters between people and the spread of infections,
and is based in Cambridge UK. It will use mobile phones to anonymously
record how often people encounter each other, and study researchers
will use this information to understand more about how fast
infections, like swine flu, can spread amongst different people in
Cambridge. Although the recent swine flu pandemic has slowed, the
outcomes of this research will be useful in planning the response to
future outbreaks.
Are
you a party-animal or a shy wall-flower? The study uses a
mobile phone application that records when you encounter other
participants using your phone's Bluetooth facility, which is present
in most mobile phones. We need your help!
The target population of the Fluphone study is
the whole of the University of Cambridge and the general public in
Cambridge. We would be very grateful to anyone willing to participate
and try out the FluPhone software in a pilot period (15 May-30 June
2010). We would also appreciate it if participants could inform us of
incompatibility issues, other problems or bugs you discover. These can
be reported via the study website.
More information about the study can
be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/fluphone/ To
enrol and download the FluPhone application, please visit http://www.fluphone.org.