Digital tools play an important role in fighting the current global COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a representative online study in Germany on a sample of 599 participants to evaluate the user perception of vaccination certificates. We investigated five different variants of vaccination certificates, based on deployed and planned designs in a between-group design, including paper-based and app-based variants. Our main results show that the willingness to use and adopt vaccination certificates is generally high. Overall, paper-based vaccination certificates were favored over app-based solutions. The willingness to use digital apps decreased significantly by a higher disposition to privacy, and increased by higher worries about the pandemic and acceptance of the coronavirus vaccination. Vaccination certificates resemble an interesting use case for studying privacy perceptions for health related data. We hope that our work will be able to educate the currently ongoing design of vaccination certificates, will give us deeper insights into privacy of health-related data and apps, and prepare us for future potential applications of vaccination certificates and health apps in general.
翻译:数字工具在打击当前全球COVID-19大流行病方面发挥了重要作用。我们在德国进行了一项有599名参与者的抽样在线研究,以评价对接种证明的用户认识。我们调查了五种不同的疫苗接种证明,其依据是小组之间设计中部署和规划的设计,包括纸质和基于应用的设计。我们的主要结果显示,使用和通过接种证明的意愿一般很高。总体而言,纸质疫苗接种证明优于基于应用的解决方案。使用数字应用程序的意愿由于对隐私的更高处置而大大降低,而由于对流行性疾病和接受冠状病毒疫苗接种的更大担忧而增加。接种证明类似于研究健康相关数据隐私认识的有趣使用案例。我们希望我们的工作能够教育当前正在进行的疫苗接种证明设计,使我们更深入地了解与健康有关的数据和应用程序的隐私,并为今后可能应用疫苗接种证明和一般健康应用程序做好准备。