Toward Feminist Ways of Sensing the Menstruating Body

要旨

Bodily fluids associated with the menstruating body are often disregarded in the design of menstrual-tracking technologies despite their potential to provide valuable knowledge about the menstrual cycle. We prototyped a finger-worn sensor that measures vaginal fluid conductivity, which fluctuates throughout the cycle, and brought it into conversation with people through two speculative workshops (18 people), four fabrication workshops (17 people), and a deployment study where participants brought the sensor into their daily lives (7 people). We unpack that taking a material and sensory approach to intimate tracking nurtures a feminist way of sensing while creating tensions around how we want to know our bodies—tensions around how, where, and when to touch the body, hygiene, data storage, interpretation practices, and labor. With epistemological commitments to feminist materialist and posthuman theory, we invite designers to embrace these tensions.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Nadia Campo Woytuk
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Anupriya Tuli
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Joo Young Park
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Laia Turmo Vidal
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Deirdre Tobin
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Anuradha Venugopal. Reddy
Independent Researcher, Malmo, Sweden
Beatrice Vincenzi
Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Jan Maslik
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Marianela Ciolfi Felice
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Madeline Balaam
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713466

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713466

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Body and Technology

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