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  • Public Health
  • Health Communication
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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  • Community immunity, or herd immunity, reduces infection risk in populations with immune individuals.
  • Understanding community immunity is linked to increased vaccination intentions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Design a web application to explain community immunity.
  • Optimize the application based on user cognitive and emotional responses.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a personalized web application with avatar-based visualizations of community immunity.
  • Collected psychophysiological and verbal feedback data across four iterative design cycles.
  • Tested visualizations in lab and public settings.

Main Results:

  • Visualization is a promising medium for explaining community immunity.
  • Iterative user involvement facilitated a clear, concise visualization of a complex topic.
  • Evaluating emotional and cognitive responses informed design improvements.

Conclusions:

  • Personalized visualizations can enhance understanding of individual roles in population health.
  • The developed app shows potential for communicating community health concepts.
  • Future randomized controlled trials will assess the app's impact on risk perception, knowledge, and vaccination intentions.