Developed at University of Cincinnati's Studio of Advanced Learning Technologies, as a method of fostering medication adherence in children with epilepsy, this intervention targets parents (caregivers) through providing education and problem solving strategies surrounding epilepsy and medication adherence. The intervention was part of a multi-site research study, conducted at four leading children's hospitals.
Junior Instructional Designer
Directed towards caregivers of children (2-12 years old) with epilepsy
Graduate Assistant: project between University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Personas
Empathy interviews
Working with SMEs
Quality Assurance
UX & ADDIE
Learning objective creation and alignment
Chunking content
Project timeline creation and management
Spreadsheets creation and management: Assets / Navigation / Usability coding / Team responsibilities
Co-creating research-based usability coding scheme
Microlearning framework
ASK framework
Infographic creation
Use of pedagogical agent
Wireframing
Wordpress
InVision
Canva
Google Slides
Google Sheets
Pixlr / Photoshop
Crystal Award recognizing the innovative and outstanding multimedia-based distance learning project Epilepsy Adherence in Children and Technology (eACT); Association of Educational Communications and Technology, Division of Distance Learning, 2019
Manuscript currently being written
Two examples of personas created to propel the user-focused design developed after conducting empathy interviews and mapping.
Out of the 8 usability studies, we saw almost an identical connection to half of the personas from real caregivers who were not part of the empathy interviews, and elements from the remaining personas.