Day to Day as a Cancer Patient

As a final project for a mapping and data visualization course, we were given the freedom to choose any topic that interested us. The challenge was choosing a topic that would give us the opportunity to create a visualization for it. 

Given my interest in healthcare innovation, I decided to focus my project on the day to day experience of a person living with cancer. I chose to focus on this because I had conducted some initial interviews with someone living with cancer and I heard from those interviews that no two cancer patients' experience are the same, nor are any two days of a cancer patient's experience.

Given the confidential nature of this project, I have omitted names and images taken during this process from my online portfolio, although I collected images during the process of this project to give a more holistic and human element to the research, I have left them out in order to protect the patient's identity. 

We began the process discussing what an emotional, spiritual, and psychological wellbeing meant for the patient. Next, I would establish a rating scale of 1 - 10 and ask them at various points throughout the day how they were feeling. I collected quotes from this and have displayed selected quotes at low points and high points of this patient's day.

HelloHealth - Artificial Intelligence Project

In a class focused on Artificial Intelligence, we were tasked with designing a tool that made use of AI technology. I chose to take advantage of my ongoing research with patients living with cancer and developed the concept for an app called HelloHealth. Below I go into further detail of how and why this app could be useful:

JUST

While working with a social entrepreneurship startup in Austin, TX, I was in charge of designing various materials that were used in a program to help support immigrant business women. This program, JUST, focused on working with women from Central and South America by providing them with a micro-loan of anywhere from $500 to $1500 dollars, creating groups where we were able to both learn more about their pain points, as well as create support for them in running their businesses. 

These weekly meetings were incredibly useful for me. I was able to learn from the women we were designing materials for, first hand, what sorts of skills, hardships, and various needs they felt would be most helpful for them. We ended up working on, and constantly iterating on, a material booklet we called "El Libro." 

These are just a few examples of materials I created based on needs we would hear during these weekly meetings: