Consumer Acceptance of a Mobile-Based Civic Engagement-Centric System for Dengue Prevention: Results from a Pilot Test in Sri Lanka

• Main Authors: Vijaykumar, Santosh, Lim, Gentatsu, Rathnayake, Vajira Sampath, Fernando, Owen Noel Newton, Foo, Schubert, Lwin, May Oo
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Health; Social media; Consumer acceptance
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82796; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40274; http://www.anzmac.org/resources/view/ANZMAC-2014-Proceedings
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Dengue affects scores of people in Sri Lanka and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region. This paper reports preliminary findings from the pilot test of a novel Android-based dengue prevention system called Mo-Buzz. Developed in collaboration with Sri Lanka’s largest telecom company and the city municip...