Time
Aug - Oct 2022
Industry
Information Visualization
members
Haoran Xu
Role
Product Design
Google did not reveal the connection between the symptoms and diseases and only gave people the most attractive answer. And for the most part, that could be cancer.
Why do symptom searches often lead to cancer-related results
Discover the connections between symptoms and disease and provide more accurate information to educate people before they get professional advice.
I found several datasets related to the symptoms and diseases and did research to reveal the insightful information.
The quotes from user
I need to understand if my symptoms potentially lead to risky disease to decide should I go to hospital.
What is the way to reveal the relationship between severity and symptom, or even more, the relationship between severity and disease.
How do we predict the potential symptoms and precautions based on the related symptom/disease.
How do we inform the people who have the chronic diseases the potential risk symptom and the precautions of the disease.
Data Exploration QUESTION
the dataset
I used the “Disease Symptom Prediction Dataset” to explore the data visualization, which contains most of the details that the users want from pre-diagnosis disease.
Usability Test results
After the tests, I collected the results and rank them into a list, which I followed to iterate my prototype.
Most of our users found that the Wireframe 01 is the most potential prototype and can solves their problem in both scenarios.
I felt the Wireframe 01 is the most potential way for me to find the diseases and symtoms since the clear hierarchy of the nodes and reponsive interaction.
- Sam Gu
How Do Professionals Work?
Most of the professionals working in the medical industry use the Disease Database to search for precise information and connections.
However, most of the Disease Databases are extremely complex and not intuitive to use.
Scenario 01 - Search While Sick
Daniel is feeling cold and fatigue. He needs to identify the possible disease and its severity.
Daniel can easily understand the relationship of the current symptoms and the related/possible diseases from the graph.
I highlight the selected node and its connected node in order to help people quickly filter the information.
Highlight Symptom and Diseases connections
Daniel can quickly check the severity of the possible diseases related to the symptom with the precaution and the description of the disease. Which can offer the user sufficient information to decide does he need to go to hospital.
I color coded the severity for the first look. The red text is always been a indicator to remind people for seeking professional advice.
Severity Indicator
Scenario 02 - search for Chronical Disease information
Galvin knows which kind of chronic disease he have. However, he want to you what is the fetal symptoms and what is the precautions for the disease.
SeekNode to feed the Galvin what they should take care of based on his search history.
I implement this feature since it will help people with the existing disease gather more information.
AI suggested reading
Galvin can search the disease he have for quick access.
For the patient who already know the disease but just want to discover the symptoms, the searchbar can help them.
Search Feature
Galvin can found out what is the specific symptoms indicates for the disease he got.
The feature can help the users to know the context of the symptom towards a specific disease.
Symptoms detail based on connected disease
Target User
Defining the user, or patient, of the product based on previous research.
Daniel - Budget Health Seekers
Budget-conscious freelancer with health concerns, seeking reliable tools and knowledge to make informed healthcare decisions, minimize unnecessary visits, and reduce anxiety.
Galvin - Chronic Health Managers
Busy professionals who need efficient health management solutions to monitor and manage chronic conditions within limited time constraints
The next step
What if we are only use the network visualization to present disease and symptoms network, but also the knowledge database for the humankind, the Wikipedia.
Imagining a new way of designing the search engine, which not only give people the answer but also give the context and the connections of the knowledge to the people.
* Images from my ongoing project, Utopedia VR
key iterations
In order to inspire more people
The project is open-sourced with GNU License on Github
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