Dear friend,
Welcome! Thank you for participating in the test of the GeauxTrace (pronounced "Go Trace") project. We appreciate your time and effort to help us improve this tool. With this project, our goal is to help control the disease and make the world a better place!
More information about us and our apps could be found here: https://www.geauxtrace.com/
GeauxTrace Developers
Sponsored by National Institutes of Health, GeauxTrace is an App developed by LSU ECE students for contact tracing. It uses Bluetooth signals of smartphones for real-time distance measurement. We emphasize privacy and security protection:
- De-identified user inputs: phone numbers and emails are not required to register and report;
- User locations and other personal information are not needed;
- All information are highly-encrypted and the system is protected from hacking.
- Anyone interested in this project is most welcomed to participate.
- Currently, you need an Android device with Android 8.1+ to install our App. Our iOS version will be released soon.
- Download the latest app from our release page or go to our website www.geauxtrace.com.
- Install and start the app. For the first time, you will be asked for the permissions. Click OK and allow.
- Click Register new account and create your account. You don't have to use real email but your username should follow the email format with "@xx.com". You password should meet the complexity requirement with uppercase, lowercase letters, number and special charactors. NOTE: If you use fake email, there is no way to retrieve password if you forget it.
- Log in your account and you are ready to go. You can exit the app and there will be a permanent notification displayed in your dock. Please leave the bluetooth on.
- Our app will perform contact tracing in the background without need of user interaction.
- To completely shut down the app, make sure you log out first and you can kill the app safely.
- We will use Bluetooth on your device to detect contacts around you. Our app will record that contact log and upload it for research purposes. Please note both you and other users are anonymous. A randomly generated ID will be used. All the network traffic are securely crypted.
- Your sensitive info like content in devices and GPS locations are not collected and never intent to be used.
- If you find a bug using our App, please send us an email at GeauxTraceDev@gmail.com.
- If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns about this project, please also leave us a message at GeauxTraceDev@gmail.com.
- If you are a developer and you want to contribute. You can create an issue on our github https://github.com/taoluwork/GeauxTrace_release.
We appreciate your feedback! Thank you!
We are a team of active developers within LSU. The team is advised by Prof. Lu Peng, and currently led by Tao Lu. Main contributers include: Fang Qi, John Ner, Tianqing Feng, Chris Vasquez. Previous contributers include: Abbas Al-Hassani, Ross Browning, William Frischhertz, Guan Lian.
More information about us and our apps could be found here: https://www.geauxtrace.com/
We are also reported by several media:
- https://www.lsu.edu/eng/news/2021/09/pengtracingapp.php
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lsu-ece-professor-develops-contact-180000094.html?guccounter=1
- https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/09/28/2304839/0/en/LSU-ECE-Professor-Develops-Contact-Tracing-Mobile-App.html
- https://www.kulr8.com/news/money/lsu-ece-professor-develops-contact-tracing-mobile-app/article_3bf3091c-dd57-5edc-8070-e8e5fa900e34.html