Das Risiko zu Herzen nehmen

Making cardiovascular risk understandable through data visualisation

Master’s thesis, FHGR Chur

2026
Master User Experience and Data Visualisation, FHGR Chur

UX/UI
Data visualisation
Interaction
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«Das Risiko zu Herzen nehmen» (Taking the risk to heart) is a cardiovascular risk calculator I designed and built for my master’s thesis, developed and tested with the Hochgebirgsklinik Davos.

Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in Switzerland, yet most risk calculators are made for doctors and hard for laypeople to understand.

Based on the SCORE2 risk model, it turns blood pressure, cholesterol, age and smoking into three simple answers: how old your heart is, how likely a heart attack or stroke is in the next ten years (shown as 100 hearts) and what you can do about it. A printout sums it all up for the next doctor’s appointment.

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One-page printout: values and measures on the left, heart age, risk and summary on the right