Many progresses in the understanding of epidemic spreading models have been
obtained thanks to numerous modeling efforts and analytical and numerical
studies, considering host populations with very different structures and
properties, including complex and temporal interaction networks. Moreover, a
number of recent studies have started to go beyond the assumption of an absence
of coupling between the spread of a disease and the structure of the contacts
on which it unfolds. Models including awareness of the spread have been
proposed, to mimic possible precautionary measures taken by individuals that
decrease their risk of infection, but have mostly considered static networks.
Here, we adapt such a framework to the more realistic case of temporal networks
of interactions between individuals. We study the resulting model by analytical
and numerical means on both simple models of temporal networks and empirical
time-resolved contact data. Analytical results show that the epidemic threshold
is not affected by the awareness but that the prevalence can be significantly
decreased. Numerical studies highlight however the presence of very strong
finite-size effects, in particular for the more realistic synthetic temporal
networks, resulting in a significant shift of the effective epidemic threshold
in the presence of risk awareness. For empirical contact networks, the
awareness mechanism leads as well to a shift in the effective threshold and to
a strong reduction of the epidemic prevalence