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Digital Women’s Health: Designing Technology for Menarche, Menstrual Cycles and Menopause Marie Louise J. Søndergaard @mljuul Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD Interaction Design Research Group Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design Marianela Ciolfi Felice @maiciolfi KTH Royal Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD

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

KTH Digital Women’s Health. Jungle Interaction Design 11 June 2020.

Women’s 
 Previous Work Health KTH Digital Women’s Health. 11 June 2020. 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 
 Previous Work Health KTH Digital Women’s Health. 11 June 2020. 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).

Women’s 
 Current Work Health KTH Digital Women’s Health. 11 June 2020. Sondergaard, M. L. J., Kilic Afsar, O., Ciol fi 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., Ciol fi 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)

Societal impact through digitalisation KTH Digital Women’s Health. • Destigmatise women's health topics 11 June 2020. 👊 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

Digitalising women's health KTH Digital Women’s Health. • Rethink the role of technology in women's health 11 June 2020. 👊 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

KTH Digital Women’s Health. 11 June 2020. Source: KTH Digital Futures - Strategic framework

What is our Research Approach? KTH Digital Women’s Health. • Research through Design (RtD) 11 June 2020. • 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

Soma Design Soma Design KTH Digital Women’s Health. • Designing with the body. 11 June 2020. • 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.

KTH Digital Women’s Health. Women’s 
 Soma 11 June 2020. Health Design Designing for/with 
 bodily transitions 
 in women’s lives. Menarche | Menstrual Cycles | Menopause

KTH Digital Women’s Health. #1 Menarche 
 11 June 2020. Menarche Bits: a prototyping toolkit for body-worn shape-changing technologies

@She-Pack (2018)

Juul Sondergaard, M. L., Kilic Afsar, O., Ciol fi 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

KTH Digital Women’s Health. #2 Menstrual Cycles 11 June 2020. Curious Cycles: probes inviting touching and looking at the menstruating body

Campo Woytuk, N., Søndergaard, M. L. J., Ciol fi 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 Campo Woytuk, N., Søndergaard, M. L. J., Ciol fi Felice, M., Balaam, M. (2020). home." "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)

KTH Digital Women’s Health. #2.5 Menstrual Cycles 11 June 2020. Designing digital interactions with bodily fluids

KTH Digital Women’s Health. #3 Menopause 11 June 2020. Co-designing with experiences of bodily anguish during menopause

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

Interviews and a co-design workshop with 13 women KTH Digital Women’s Health. 11 June 2020. Menopause Partnerships

Interviews and a co-design workshop with 13 women KTH Digital Women’s Health. 11 June 2020. the 'cocoon' the 'spike mat' Menopause Partnerships

KTH Digital Women’s Health. 11 June 2020.

KTH Digital Women’s Health. #4 Digital Contraception 11 June 2020. Studying Natural Cycles users’ experiences of digital contraception

KTH Digital Women’s Health. KTH Digital Women’s Health. @Natural Cycles webshop 11 June 2020. 11 June 2020.

KTH Digital Women’s Health. KTH Digital Women’s Health. available on Natural Cycles App Store page 11 June 2020. 11 June 2020.

KTH Digital Women’s Health. 11 June 2020. available on Natural Cycles App Store page

Take-aways : 1. Destigmatising women’s bodily transitions through KTH Digital Women’s Health. technology design. Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard mljso@kth.se 11 June 2020. Marianela Ciolfi Felice ciolfi@kth.se 2. Seeing digitalisation as beyond screen-based: engaging Madeline Balaam Anna Ståhl with the body. Özgün Kilic Afsar 3. Involving users throughout the whole design process. Nadia Campo Woytuk Maria Kjærup our website: www.dwh.proj.kth.se