Intimate touch

Balaam, Madeline; Woytuk, Nadia Campo; Felice, Marianela Ciolfi; Afsar, Ozgun Kilic; Ståhl, Anna; Søndergaard, Marie Louise Juul

doi:10.1145/3427781

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“…In this paper, we start with the premise that designing for menopause should engage with the body and promote acceptance and appreciation for it; and that design should accompany people in resisting the medicalisation discourse, and therefore in enacting social justice. Inspired by a Digital Women's Health agenda [1,7] and the Feminist HCI framework [10], we adopt a participatory design approach to involve people with experiences of menopause as active actors in the design process. Answering to Bennett and Rosner's call [13], we start cultivating partnerships, frst through interviews with 12 participants and then through a design workshop with three, inspired by soma design methods [48].…”

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Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Felice

Søndergaard

Balaam

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The menopause transition involves bodily-rooted, socially-shaped changes, often in a context of medicalisation that marginalises people based on their age and gender. With the goal of addressing this social justice matter with a participatory design approach, we started to cultivate partnerships with people going through menopause. This paper reports on interviews with 12 women and a design workshop with three. Our data analysis highlights their experiences from a holistic perspective that reclaims the primacy of the body and acknowledges the entanglement of the physical and the psychosocial. Participants' design concepts show how design can come close the body to make space for menopause experiences, recognising and transforming them. We discuss how HCI can actively engage with the body to promote appreciation for it during menopause, and call for design that accompanies people in resisting the medicalisation of menopause as an enactment of social justice in everyday life. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Interaction design; Participatory design.

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confidence: 99%

Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Felice

Søndergaard

Balaam

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Body maps can also be used with the sole purpose of creating body awareness before engaging in design activities, as in the guide on "how-to" provided in the pictorial, where there is no specific design activity included. This approach to body mapping as a sensitisation tool is commonly used in soma design workshops [3,37].…”

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Body Maps: A Generative Tool for Soma-based Design

Cochrane

Mah

Ståhl

et al. 2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Body maps are visual documents, where somatic experiences can be drawn onto a graphical representation of an outline of the human body. They hold the ability to capture complex and non-explicit emotions and somatic felt sensations, elaborating narratives that cannot be simply spoken. We present an illustrative example of "how-to" complete a body map, together with four case studies that provide examples of using body maps in design research. We identify five uses of body maps as generative tools for soma-based design, ranging from sampling bodily experience, heightening bodily self-awareness, understanding changing bodily experience over time, identifying patterns of bodily experience, and transferring somatic experiential qualities into physical designs. The different requirements for scaffolding the use of body maps in

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“…The Soma Design studio approaches their design work on engaging in bodily exercises such as Feldenkrais or Contact improvisation dance to achieve an awareness of our somas-improving on and understanding the connections between movement, emotion, and thinking-and what interactive technologies may afford. They have built applications for increasing body awareness [36], improving female health such as increasing menstruation cycle awareness [13], pelvic floor engagements [6], and applications addressing mental health through creative design processes [77].…”

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Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case

HöökKristina

BenfordSteve

TennentPaul

et al. 2021

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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We report on a somaesthetic design workshop and the subsequent analytical work aiming to demystify what is entailed in a non-dualistic design stance on embodied interaction and why a first-person engagement is crucial to its unfoldings. However, as we will uncover through a detailed account of our process, these first-person engagements are deeply entangled with second- and third-person perspectives, sometimes even overlapping. The analysis furthermore reveals some strategies for bridging the body-mind divide by attending to our inner universe and dissolving or traversing dichotomies between inside and outside ; individual and social ; body and technology . By detailing the creative process, we show how soma design becomes a process of designing with and through kinesthetic experience, in turn letting us confront several dualisms that run like fault lines through HCI’s engagement with embodied interaction.

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Intimate touch

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Body Maps: A Generative Tool for Soma-based Design

Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case

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