Designing Menstrual Technologies with Adolescents

Søndergaard, Marie Louise Juul; Felice, Marianela Ciolfi; Balaam, Madeline

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445471

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“…They have been adopted by a wide range of users, with apps like Flo and Clue having 43 and 8 million active users, respectively [18,23]. Design and HCI research in this area has explored why and how women track their menstrual cycles [22], the privacy implications of menstrual tracking and fertility technologies [25,33,40], and the design space for menstrual technologies that mediate self-touch and augment self-knowledge [16,50]. Several shortcomings of menstrual tracking technologies are well documented in the literature.…”

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confidence: 99%

Reconstructing Intimate Contexts through Data Donation: A Case Study in Menstrual Tracking Technologies

Ortega

Bourgeois

Kortuem

2022

Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference

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Ubiquitous wearable and mobile technologies generate vast amounts of data from sensors and self-logging applications. This data creates opportunities to better understand people's behavior and inform research on intimate topics such as menstruation. However, in design and HCI research, reconstructing the context in which data was collected and understanding the lived experience behind the data often requires the active participation of people. In this paper, we augment the concept of data donation beyond data collection to explore the possibilities of actively engaging data donors in the (intimate) interpretation of their data. Specifically, we define and implement a menstrual logs data donation journey. We received data sets from 35 donors over five weeks, 13 of whom participated in reconstructing the context of their data. We translate our experience into a conceptualization of designerly data donation around the data, data donors, and data receivers, which we discuss along with its implications. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models.

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