Concept demo 08 · Visual-first & messaging
Going home safely: a discharge comic
Each instruction paired with a picture of someone doing it. The caregiver is a full character, and the last panel becomes a plan to print.
Graphic-medicine comic. For Walter, 78, going home after a heart failure stay, and his daughter Grace (illustrative).
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What it shows
- One panel at a time, with read-aloud speech bubbles
- Teach-back shown in a panel, so families know what to ask for
- The caregiver's own jobs in the story
- A filled-in plan card to print
Try it
- Step through the panels
- Tap a speech bubble to hear it
- Open "My plan"
How HealthLiteracyCopilot would build it
- The hospital's reviewed discharge content becomes a panel script and consistent characters in an approved style
- Speech bubbles stay as live text, so they can be translated, read aloud and checked
- Checked with PEMAT-P per panel, the CDC Clear Communication Index and alt-text completeness
- Simulated older adults and caregivers (simulated participants, not patients) flag unclear panels
Draws on: Create · Assess · Behavior change
Why the techniques work
Findings about the techniques, not results of this concept or of HealthLiteracyCopilot.
Techniques
- Graphic medicine
- Teach-back shown, not told
- Caregiver in the story
Behavior change techniques
- Demonstration of the behavior
- Restructuring the physical environment
- Prompts and cues
Relevant pictures paired with plain words can help attention, comprehension and recall, especially for people with limited literacy.
Guardrails
- Medicines and thresholds come from the hospital's reviewed content
- People and phone numbers are fictional
- Every output has a complete text and print fallback
Questions
Is this something HealthLiteracyCopilot does today?
Not as shown here. HealthLiteracyCopilot reviews written health content for plain language and accessibility today. These concept demos show where it is going: the same review discipline carried into interactive, audio, video and voice formats. Organizations can help shape it as design partners.
Why keep speech bubbles as text?
Live text can be translated, read aloud by a screen reader and checked for plain language. Words baked into an image can do none of those.
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