Student Researcher

Cura AI Labs is developing a digital healthcare platform that helps people share health-relatedexperiences, symptoms and changes between consultations through voice or text.
The platform structures this information into clear overviews, enabling healthcare professionals to gain a better understanding of patients' situations beyond the consultation.
However, introducing a new digital platform can create barriers, particularly for people withlimited digital skills or those who are less comfortable using digital healthcare applications.
Cura wants to investigate whether its platform can become more accessible by allowing users tointeract through familiar communication channels, such as Microsoft teams, email or telegram,rather than requiring them to use a separate application.
Through this project, Cura aims to validate its current platform, explore alternative interactionmethods and discover how digital healthcare can better fit into people's everyday digital habits.
How can Cura make sharing health information between consultations more accessible and userfriendly for people with different levels of digital skills, and what role can familiar communication channels play in achieving this?
Students will investigate how Cura can make sharing health information between consultationsmore accessible and user-friendly, particularly for people with limited digital skills.The research consists of two main parts.1. Evaluating the existing Cura platform
Students will investigate how users interact with the current MVP, identifying usability issues,accessibility barriers and potential difficulties when recording and sharing health information.2. Exploring alternative interaction methods
Students will investigate whether familiar communication channels, such as WhatsApp and email,could provide a more accessible way for users to interact with Cura.
Through co-creation sessions, interviews and concept prototyping, students will explore alternativeinteraction methods and compare them with the existing platform.
The research will focus on usability, accessibility, user preferences, trust, privacy and the effortrequired to share information.
Students will translate their findings into concrete recommendations for Cura's future productdevelopment, including potential interaction models, user journeys and low-fidelity prototypes.
The goal is to validate key product assumptions and explore how Cura can best fit into theeveryday digital lives of its intended users.
Research Report: A report explaining how the researchwas carried out, what participants shared and what thestudents learned.
Evaluation of the Current Cura Platform: An overviewof what works well, what users find difficult and whatcould be improved.
Comparison of Different Ways to Use Cura: Acomparison of the current Cura platform with otherways of sharing information, such as through WhatsAppor email.
User Feedback and Insights: An overview of what usersneed, prefer and find challenging when using digitalhealthcare services.
Suggestions for Improvement: Practicalrecommendations on how Cura can become easier touse and more accessible.
Design Ideas and Prototypes: Simple designs, examplesor interactive prototypes showing how users couldinteract with Cura in different ways.
No fixed location. Most activities and meetings will take place
online. In-person sessions can be arranged when needed.
Cura AI Labs, students, end users, healthcare professionals andpotentially other universities
Rutger Wiersma: rutger@curalabs.nl or +316 27240325icw Research Group Digital Literacy and Inclusion Madelon van Oostrom, m.van.oostrom@pl.hanze.nl
Cura AI Labs will help with: Access to the current MVP and testscenarios, product related questions and hypotheses to investigat,feedback on research findings and proposed design solutions,guidance on translating research insights into practical productimprovements.
Would you like to learn more about Cura and the project? Visit ourwebsite:
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