Tobias Reisch

TL;DR: This research indicates that mobile phone usage data permits the moment-by-moment quantification of mobility behavior for a whole country, and emphasizes the need to improve the availability of such data in anonymized form to empower rapid response to combat COVID-19 and future pandemics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analysis of daily changes of human mobility throughout Austria using near-real-time anonymized mobile phone data, and demonstrate the relevance of mobility data for epidemiological studies by showing a significant correlation of the outflow from the town of Ischgl (an early COVID-19 hotspot) and the reported cases with an 8-day time lag.

TL;DR: The resilience of behavioral patterns with respect to the shock imposed by a strict nation-wide lock-down that Austria experienced in the beginning of the crisis with severe implications on public and private life is shown.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified gender-specific patterns of communication intensity, mobility, and circadian rhythms for a wide range of human activities including the way people communicate, move, provision themselves, or organize leisure activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present four case studies from the perspective of an interdisciplinary research institution that switched to "corona-mode" during the first two months of the crisis, focussing all its capacities on COVID-19-related issues, communicating to the public directly and via media, as well as actively advising the national government.