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Marie Louise J. Søndergaard @mljuul Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD Marianela Ciolfi Felice @maiciolfi Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD

Digital Women’s Health:

Interaction Design Research Group Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Designing Technology for Menarche, Menstrual Cycles and Menopause

Digital Women’s Health group

Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard
 Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD Madeline Balaam Associate Professor, Docent Marianela (Mai) Ciolfi Felice Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD Nadia Campo Woytuk Research Engineer in Software Art Anna Ståhl Senior Researcher, PhD RISE Özgün Kilic Afsar PhD Student Maria Kjærup Visiting PhD Student
 Aalborg University

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Interaction Design Jungle

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Previous Work

Madeline Balaam, Rob Comber, Ed Jenkins, Selina Sutton, and Andrew Garbett. 2015. FeedFinder: A Location-Mapping Mobile Application for Breastfeeding

• Women. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15), https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702328

Almeida, T., Comber, R., Wood, G., Saraf, D., & Balaam, M. (2016). On Looking at the Vagina through Labella. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’16, 1810–1821. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858119

Women’s 
 Health

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Søndergaard, M L J., and Hansen, Lone K. (2016). PeriodShare: A Bloody Design Fiction.” Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. NordiCHI ’16. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2971485.2996748. Søndergaard, M. L. J. (2018). Staying with the Trouble through Design: Critical-feminist Design of Intimate Technology (Doctoral dissertation, Ph. D. Dissertation).

Previous Work

Women’s 
 Health

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Sondergaard, M. L. J., Kilic Afsar, O., Ciolfi Felice, M., Campo Woytuk, N., & Balaam,

• M. (2020). Designing with Intimate Materials and Movements: Making “Menarche Bits”.

In DIS 2020 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. (Best Paper Award) Campo Woytuk, N., Søndergaard, M. L. J., Ciolfi Felice, M., Balaam, M. (2020). "Touching and Being in Touch with the Menstruating Body." Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. (Best Paper Award)

Women’s 
 Health

Current Work

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Societal impact through digitalisation

• Destigmatise women's health topics

👊 by raising awareness, making them visible

• Rethink how women's health is understood and delivered

👊 by questioning its confinement to the doctor's office
 👊 by avoiding the medicalisation of natural bodily processes

• Help women to trust their body and learn from it

👊 by building novel technology that is trustworthy

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Digitalising women's health

• Rethink the role of technology in women's health

👊 by critiquing existing products 👊 by proposing alternatives

• Approach digitalisation beyond screen-based interaction

👊 by creating body-centred technologies 👊 by developing methods to design and evaluate such technologies

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Source: KTH Digital Futures - Strategic framework

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What is our Research Approach?

• Research through Design (RtD)
• Mixed methods

👊 Participatory Design: Interviews, workshops and probes 👊 Critical / Speculative Design: Critique, future thinking, exhibitions 👊 Soma Design: First-person, designing with and for the body 👊 Natural language processing: Topic modelling of user review analysis

• Research is applied! Done in the world

👊 Engineering dimension: Building and deploying prototypes

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Soma Design

Soma Design

• Designing with the body.
• Sensory appreciation, increasing body awareness.
• Designs where the interesting, joyful, pleasurable experience comes first.
• First-person perspectives, lived experience.
• Designing sloooooooow.
• Bodily practices, incl. Feldenkrais, contact improvisation.

Women’s 
 Health Soma Design

Designing for/with 
 bodily transitions 
 in women’s lives.

Menarche | Menstrual Cycles | Menopause

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#1 Menarche
 Menarche Bits: a prototyping toolkit for body-worn shape-changing technologies

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@She-Pack (2018)

Juul Sondergaard, M. L., Kilic Afsar, O., Ciolfi Felice, M., Campo Woytuk, N., & Balaam, M. (2020). Designing with Intimate Materials and Movements: Making “Menarche Bits”. In DIS 2020 Designing Interactive Systems Conference.

Menarche Bits

Design workshops Solna High School

Design workshops Solna High School

#2 Menstrual Cycles Curious Cycles: probes inviting touching and looking at the menstruating body

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Campo Woytuk, N., Søndergaard, M. L. J., Ciolfi Felice, M., Balaam, M. (2020). "Touching and Being in Touch with the Menstruating Body." Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. (Best Paper Award)

20 June 2019.

“I notice the mucus textures all the time, but I didn’t associate it with this, I never connected it." "It was funny how those things [the probes] were existing in our home."

Campo Woytuk, N., Søndergaard, M. L. J., Ciolfi Felice, M., Balaam, M. (2020). "Touching and Being in Touch with the Menstruating Body." Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. (Best Paper Award)

#2.5 Menstrual Cycles Designing digital interactions with bodily fluids

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#3 Menopause Co-designing with experiences of bodily anguish during menopause

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KTH Digital Women’s Health. 11 June 2020. @Maria Fabrizio

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Menopause Partnerships

Interviews and a co-design workshop with 13 women

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Menopause Partnerships

Interviews and a co-design workshop with 13 women

the 'cocoon'

the 'spike mat'

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#4 Digital Contraception Studying Natural Cycles users’ experiences

• f digital contraception

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KTH Digital Women’s Health.

• 1. Destigmatising women’s bodily transitions through

technology design.

• 2. Seeing digitalisation as beyond screen-based: engaging

with the body.

• 3. Involving users throughout the whole design process.
• ur website: www.dwh.proj.kth.se

Take-aways:

Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard mljso@kth.se Marianela Ciolfi Felice ciolfi@kth.se Madeline Balaam Anna Ståhl Özgün Kilic Afsar Nadia Campo Woytuk Maria Kjærup

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