Touching and Being in Touch with the Menstruating Body

QC 20211011Proceedings ISBN 9781450367080
We describe a Research through Design project-Curious Cycles-A collection of objects and interactions which encourage people to be in close contact with their menstruating body. Throughout a full menstrual cycle, five participants used Curious Cycles to look at their bodies in unfamiliar ways and to touch their bodily fluids, specifically, menstrual blood, saliva, and cervical mucus. The act of touching and looking led to the construction of new knowledge about the self and to a nurturing appreciation for the changing body. Yet, participants encountered and reflected upon frictions within themselves, their home, and their social surroundings, which stem from societal stigma and preconceptions about menstruation and bodily fluids. We call for and show how interaction design can engage with technologies that mediate self-touch as a first step towards reconfiguring the way menstruating bodies are treated in society.

NATURVETENSKAP Data- och informationsvetenskap Människa-datorinteraktion hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Computer and Information Sciences Human Computer Interaction hsv//eng
feminist hci
menstrual cycles
menstruation
research through design
touching
women's health
Human engineering
Cervical mucus
Design projects
Interaction design
Menstrual cycle
Body fluids

Juul Sondergaard, Marie LouiseKTH,Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID(Swepub:kth)u14ulz3k (författare)
Ciolfi Felice, MarianelaKTH,Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID(Swepub:kth)u17j5ujj (författare)
Balaam, MadelineKTH,Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID(Swepub:kth)u1y9yv9d (författare)
KTHMedieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - ProceedingsNew York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Av författaren/redakt...: Campo Woytuk, Na ...; Juul Sondergaard ...; Ciolfi Felice, M ...; Balaam, Madeline

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