[论文解读] Unleashing the power of disruptive and emerging technologies amid COVID-19: A detailed review

Sonali Agarwal, Punn Ns+5 more|arXiv (Cornell University)|May 23, 2020

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一句话总结

本论文综述新兴、未来和颠覆性技术及其基于SWOT的应用，以缓解COVID-19，概述以人为本和智慧空间主题，并提出后COVID世界的优先研究方向。

ABSTRACT

The unprecedented outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), during early December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has quickly evolved into a global pandemic, became a matter of grave concern, and placed government agencies worldwide in a precarious position. The scarcity of resources and lack of experiences to endure the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the fear of future consequences has established the need for adoption of emerging and future technologies to address the upcoming challenges. Since the last five months, the amount of pandemic impact has reached its pinnacle that is altering everyone's life; and humans are now bound to adopt safe ways to survive under the risk of being affected. Technological advances are now accelerating faster than ever before to stay ahead of the consequences and acquire new capabilities to build a safer world. Thus, there is a rising need to unfold the power of emerging, future and disruptive technologies to explore all possible ways to fight against COVID-19. In this review article, we attempt to study all emerging, future, and disruptive technologies that can be utilized to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. Building on background insights, detailed technological specific use cases to fight against COVID-19 have been discussed in terms of their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). As concluding remarks, we highlight prioritized research areas and upcoming opportunities to blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological domain-specific challenges and also illuminate collaborative research directions for moving towards a post-COVID-19 world.

研究动机与目标

• 解释新兴和颠覆性技术在应对COVID-19挑战中的作用。
• 将技术分类为以人为本和智慧空间主题，并绘制它们的相互关系。
• 提供基于技术的COVID-19应用案例的SWOT分析。
• 确定后COVID-19恢复阶段的优先研究领域和协作方向。

提出的方法

• 从历史和概念上回顾颠覆性和新兴技术的格局。
• 将技术分类为以人为本和智慧空间主题，并描述相关趋势。
• 展示跨领域的基于技术的COVID-19使用案例及SWOT分析。
• 提供技术出现的时间线并总结相关研究工作。
• 提出后COVID-19社会的优先研究领域和未来机会。

实验结果

研究问题

• RQ1 哪些颠覆性和新兴技术与缓解COVID-19影响最相关？
• RQ2 如何将以人为本和智慧空间技术映射到COVID-19使用案例和结果？
• RQ3 哪些SWOT因素影响这些技术在疫情应对和恢复中的采用？
• RQ4 为推进后COVID-19世界，优先考虑的未来研究方向和合作有哪些？

主要发现

• 提出了颠覆性技术主题的分类法，包括以人为本、智慧空间等类别。
• 在数据、隐私与治理等领域，为基于技术的COVID-19使用案例提供SWOT分析。
• 本文勾勒了技术出现的时间线并关联相关研究工作与综述。
• 提供一个优先研究领域与协作方向的框架，以连接物理、数字和生物领域。
• 本工作强调为规划而汇聚技术、为领域专门化而发散。
• 强调在部署这些技术时需要透明性、可追溯性以及AI/安全性考量。