Olivia Kusch

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I am a Master’s student in Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Lausanne, with a background in data engineering and workflow redesign across corporate environments, spanning business analysis, UX/UI, and implementation. My connection to the Persuasive Technology Lab grew out of two courses taught by Prof. Mauro Cherubini: Digital Transformation of the Democratic Discourse, and Interaction Design, both of which deepened my interest in how platform design mediates human behaviour and decision-making. 

I am currently contributing to the lab through a semester research project examining the relationship between social media platform design and misinformation susceptibility, and have a strong interest in developing this work further. More broadly, I am interested in the co-evolution of technology and society, and in how the design of everyday systems shapes cognition, interaction, and information flows in ways that are rarely visible and increasingly consequential.