{"id":2279,"date":"2026-05-04T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:26:12","slug":"olivia-kusch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/2026\/05\/olivia-kusch\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Kusch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a Master&#8217;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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Master&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002033,"featured_media":2280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-group-members-current","8":"category-research-assistant-group-members"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}