NZ COVID Tracer app for Android and iOS

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#2759078 12-Aug-2021 15:25

Technofreak:

Don't we effectively have that now, the app shows that where we have just signed into until you go back the the "Record a Visit" screen?

Kind of, but the way the SA app does it, the green tick is large and so is the font displaying name of the premises, making it easy to check at a glance. A relatively easy addition to our app I would have thought.

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#2759604 13-Aug-2021 11:40

kiwifidget:

Liking the saved favourites.

Can now scan in before I get out of the car at the supermarket. No more dropped phone.

Downside - no one sees me scan in and I look like all the other no-scanners out there.

Agreed, this is an excellent feature and have used it a few times myself. This is usually when I've successfully scanned there before but at another time of day the light/reflection plus glass plus laminated poster = near impossible scan. Like you I'm very conscious that when you aren't seen scanning then others don't take the hint and becomes normalised. That said people following me in somewhere don't take said hint and just walk around me. I'll just assume they'll scan on their way out <cough> <cough>

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#2759606 13-Aug-2021 11:49

Dingbatt:

I liked the function on South Austraila’s scanning app whereby it put a green check mark on your phone screen when you scanned in. Shops had the right to ask to see the check mark when you entered the store. Places like Target and JBHiFi had security guards checking before you were allowed to enter. I believe the SA Police could issue spot fines to both the customer and retailer if someone couldn’t produce proof of scanning in. This function surely wouldn’t be that difficult to add to our COVID app.

Think I've mentioned it previously in this thread but perhaps we need to turn that idea on its head and incentivise people to scan rather than be heavy handed with it (initially). Perhaps retailers could offer a small discount with proof of scanning at entry or free gift/spot prize? A spot prize is more motivating than a spot fine.

Word of mouth will get around in their favour and local media might even publicise the first couple of shops to do it as a warm fuzzy community story.

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#2761550 17-Aug-2021 15:49

Hopefully scanning numbers jump up from todays community case and people start taking this seriously, again.

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#2761554 17-Aug-2021 15:52

tanivula:

Hopefully scanning numbers jump up from todays community case and people start taking this seriously, again.

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#2761568 17-Aug-2021 15:55

They will.

But it doesn't help the current investigation of where they've all been for 2 weeks prior to today. Which is the importance

Is what noone seems to be able to get through to people and should be used as an example right now to show how it's let them down.

'under investigating' and 'contact tracing' right NOW is reliant on EVERYONE the past 2 weeks. Not from tomorrow :/

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#2761570 17-Aug-2021 15:57

tanivula:

Hopefully scanning numbers jump up from todays community case and people start taking this seriously, again.

Too late, that's like closing the gate after the horse has bolted.

People are dumb and lazy.

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#2761571 17-Aug-2021 15:57

tanivula:

Hopefully scanning numbers jump up from todays community case and people start taking this seriously, again.

If any locations of interest are published today then contact tracing starts from 2 weeks ago - so scanning today is good, scanning at least 2 weeks ago would have been better.

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#2761786 17-Aug-2021 19:26

Our live stats for NZ COVID Tracer are showing lots of people doing manual entries tonight.

For those of you adding history - please use your favourites - it will make sure the identifier (GLN) is added which means you will get a notification if it becomes a location of interest.

For those of you redownloading COVID Tracer:

🎉 Welcome back :)

We have done some nice renovations while you have been gone - like the live stats and favourites above.

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#2761806 17-Aug-2021 20:12

@jonherries The iOS manual entry (with reduce motion) issue seems to be fixed in the last update. Thanks :-)

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#2761808 17-Aug-2021 20:17

I was in Auckland last week. Was almost expecting the app to notify me...

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#2761810 17-Aug-2021 20:30

RunningMan:
@jonherries The iOS manual entry (with reduce motion) issue seems to be fixed in the last update. Thanks :-)

Yeah - we added some white space….

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#2761814 17-Aug-2021 20:35

Ahh, that explains the somewhat clunky scroll down, but it is functional again which is really helpful.

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#2761843 17-Aug-2021 21:47

@jonherries. If you are open to suggestions!

Messages of course coming through in the app today! So I notice a new one saying "It's been a week since ...".

Yes indeed because it's been more than a week since I left our property, which is not unusual being rural, working from home (for the past >30 yrs) and somewhat past the 20's something social butterfly stage of life.

My diary shows 'entries' for every day, most being "Add diary entry".

Now I am one who has tried to scan into every location I have been in with a QR code for the past many months, or on the odd occasion when distracted and have accidentally forgotten, have later added in a manual entry. And in case there has been one I missed altogether (not that I am aware of, recently anyway), then I have had Google Timeline on for about as long as it has been around.

But if you are wanting 'did not leave home all day' entries on the 50% - 80% plus days when this would apply, perhaps making it simpler might get a higher response rate.

Perhaps a pop-up on first use of the phone each morning - possibly a button with two options: "Home all day" (highlighted - one press and it's done - do not even open the app), with a secondary option that opens the manual entry dialogue (and a 'cancel' in fine print).

Possible?

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#2761847 17-Aug-2021 21:58

Always open to suggestions. That exact feature is in the add manual entry screen - might be a bit deep for easy navigation if that is what you are doing regularly (it works ok for me a couple of days a week).

The reason it is important is it saves a contact tracer time when the speed and accuracy of contact tracing are generally in opposition (hard to do both at once).

An “I stayed home” entry means you don’t get asked in a variety of ways whether you did anything that day -often done by combing through bank records, emails and your calendar.

I think they used to say: no news is good news - in this case that goes double for you and the contact tracer.

Jon

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