Inaction as a Design Decision: Reflections on Not Designing Self-Tracking Tools for Menopause

Sarah Homewood

doi:10.1145/3290607.3310430

Inaction as a Design Decision: Reflections on Not Designing Self-Tracking Tools for Menopause

Sarah Homewood

Publikation: Konference artikel i Proceeding eller bog/rapport kapitel › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

This reflective essay documents an attempt to design self-tracking technologies for menopause. This process culminated in the decision to not design. The contribution of this essay is the knowledge produced through reflecting on inaction. From an investigation into current examples, it became clear that applying self-tracking to menopause was fundamentally inappropriate. These technologies were also found to risk resulting in more harm than good; both in essentializing and medicalizing a non-medical process, and in perpetuating notions of the bodily experience of the menopausal transition as a negative experience.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Forlag	Association for Computing Machinery
Publikationsdato	18 apr. 2019
Sider	alt17
ISBN (Elektronisk)	978-1-4503-5971-9
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3310430
Status	Udgivet - 18 apr. 2019

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Menopause
women’s health
reflective HCI
non-design
undesign
menstrual cycles

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Publikation: Konference artikel i Proceeding eller bog/rapport kapitel › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review

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