Posted April 13, 2020

Developers at the University of Memphis have a way to let you know just how well you’re social distancing.

They've created one of the first-of-its-kind apps to track crowding, specifically in Shelby County, Tennessee.

Developers at the MD2K Center of Excellence at the U of M said their app mContain works like our step tracker on our phones. Instead of steps, mContain lets us know just how close we’re getting to others during this pandemic in hopes to provide us information to make decisions about our health.

“As we have on our phones activity trackers that track how many steps we’ve taken or how long we’ve been active. That allows us to have one metric on our well being and that is activity,” MD2K Center of Excellence Associate Director of Research and Studies Shahin Samiei said. “Same with sleep trackers. This app allows people to have an awareness on social crowding or social distancing.”

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