A Feminist HCI Approach to Designing Postpartum Technologies

D’Ignazio, Catherine; Hope, Alexis; Michelson, Becky; Churchill, Robyn; Zuckerman, Ethan

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858460

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“…We have been actively engaged with the design space around this topic for the past 5 years. Informed by feminist HCI, we undertook an analysis of over 1,000 mothersubmitted ideas to improve the breast pump, a technology that allows mothers to collect and store their breast milk [28]. We also reported on the first iteration of a hackathon on this topic [27].…”

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Hackathons as Participatory Design

Hope

D’Ignazio

Hoy

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Breastfeeding is not only a public health issue, but also a matter of economic and social justice. This paper presents an iteration of a participatory design process to create spaces for re-imagining products, services, systems, and policies that support breastfeeding in the United States. Our work contributes to a growing literature around making hackathons more inclusive and accessible, designing participatory processes that center marginalized voices, and incorporating systems-and relationship-based approaches to problem solving. By presenting an honest assessment of the successes and shortcomings of the first iteration of a hackathon, we explain how we restructured the second Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon in service of equity and systems design. Key to our re-imagining of conventional innovation structures is a focus on experience design, where joy and play serve as key strategies to help people and institutions build relationships across lines of difference. We conclude with a discussion of design principles applicable not only to designers of events, but to social movement researchers and HCI scholars trying to address oppression through the design of technologies and socio-technical systems.

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confidence: 99%

Hackathons as Participatory Design

Hope

D’Ignazio

Hoy

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Our study makes what Bardzell has outlined as a critique-based contribution by "analyz[ing] designs...to expose their unintended consequences" [2:1301] and by reading technological devices for the "tacit assumptions" they make and "latent cultural values" they express about women and femininity [54:372-373]. By focusing specifically on the experiences of women, our work aligns with feminist research that questions Western universalism [13] and aims to move away from "gender-agnostic" [15] views of technology and data. Digital health technologies, in particular, capture highly personal data that is inextricably linked to contextual factors and one's complex identity, which includes intersections of gender as well as race, sexuality, class, and ability.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…In our work, we build upon feminist research that has examined devices as sociotechnical design objects [1,13,14,18,53] and scholarship that has specifically focused on women's health experiences such as those related to body disruption and intimate care [1], and menstruation [17]. Our study makes what Bardzell has outlined as a critique-based contribution by "analyz[ing] designs...to expose their unintended consequences" [2:1301] and by reading technological devices for the "tacit assumptions" they make and "latent cultural values" they express about women and femininity [54:372-373].…”

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“…Drawing on a six-month study of fitness tracking with the Jawbone UP3, we utilize duoethnography as a feminist methodology to uncover "common pain points and overlooked opportunities" unique to gendered experiences and interactions with sociotechnical systems [13]. First, we contextualize the relations of gender and fitness tracking within scholarship on digital health tracking and on feminist approaches to socio-technical systems design and research.…”

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Inscribing Gender: A Duoethnographic Examination of Gendered Values and Practices in Fitness Tracker Design

Cifor¹,

García²

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Using fitness trackers to generate and collect quantifiable data is a widespread practice aimed at better understanding one's health and body. The intentional design of fitness trackers as genderless or universal is predicated on masculinist design values and assumptions and does not result in "neutral" artifacts. Instead,\ ignoring gender in the design of fitness tracking devices marks a dangerous ongoing inattention to the needs, desires, lives, and life chances of women, as well as transgender and gender nonconforming persons. We utilize duoethnography, a methodology emphasizing personal narrative and dialogue, as a tool that promotes feminist reflexivity in the design and study of fitness tracking technologies. Using the Jawbone UP3 as our object of study, we present findings that illustrate the gendered physical and interface design features and discuss how these features reproduce narrow understandings of gender, health, and lived experiences.

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“…Security and privacy needs have been often expressed by diverse user groups, including health workers [39], new mothers [62], and children of migrant workers [151]. However, the desire for usable and personalized technologies often eclipses security and privacy needs of marginalized people in developing regions.…”

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Examining Security and Privacy Research in Developing Regions

Vashistha

Anderson

Mare

2018

Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

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Prior research suggests that security and privacy needs of users in developing regions are different than those in developed regions. To better understand the underlying differentiating factors, we conducted a systematic review of Human-Computer Interaction for Development and Security & Privacy publications in 15 proceedings, such as CHI, SOUPS, ICTD, and DEV, from the past ten years. Through an in-depth analysis of 114 publications that discuss security and privacy needs of people in developing regions, we identified five key factors-culture, knowledge gaps, unintended technology use, context, and usability and cost considerations-that shape security and privacy preferences of people in developing regions. We discuss how these factors influence their security and privacy considerations using case studies on phone sharing and surveillance. We then present a set of design recommendations and research directions for addressing security and privacy needs of people in resource-constrained settings. CCS CONCEPTS• Security and privacy → Human and societal aspects of security and privacy;

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A Feminist HCI Approach to Designing Postpartum Technologies

Cited by 80 publications

References 18 publications

Hackathons as Participatory Design

Hackathons as Participatory Design

Inscribing Gender: A Duoethnographic Examination of Gendered Values and Practices in Fitness Tracker Design

Examining Security and Privacy Research in Developing Regions

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