Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature

James O'Connell   ¹ , MB BCh BAO, MSc ;   Manzar Abbas   ¹ , BSc, MSc ;   Sarah Beecham   ¹ , PhD ;   Jim Buckley   ¹ , PhD ;   Muslim Chochlov   ¹ , PhD ;   Brian Fitzgerald   ¹ , PhD ;   Liam Glynn   ² , MD ;   Kevin Johnson   ³ , BEng, MEng, PhD ;   John Laffey   ^{4, 5} , BSc, MB, MA, MD ;   Bairbre McNicholas   ^{4, 5} , BSc, MB BCh, PhD ;   Bashar Nuseibeh   ^{1, 6} , PhD, MAE, MRIA ;   Michael O'Callaghan   ² , BM, BS, BEng, MSc ;   Ian O'Keeffe   ¹ , BA, BAI, MSc, PhD ;   Abdul Razzaq   ¹ , PhD ;   Kaavya Rekanar   ¹ , BTech, MSc ;   Ita Richardson   ¹ , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Andrew Simpkin   ⁷ , PhD ;   Cristiano Storni   ¹ , PhD ;   Damyanka Tsvyatkova   ¹ , PhD ;   Jane Walsh   ⁸ , PhD ;   Thomas Welsh   ¹ , PhD ;   Derek O'Keeffe   ^{1, 4, 5} , BEng, MB BCh BAO, MEng, MD, PhD

¹ Lero, Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

² School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

³ Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

⁴ School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

⁵ University Hospital Galway, Saolta, Health Services Executive, Galway, Ireland

⁶ School of Computing and Communications, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

⁷ School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

⁸ School of Psychology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland