Ovum: Designing for Fertility Tracking as a Shared and Domestic Experience

Sarah Homewood; Harvey Bewley; Laurens Boer

doi:10.1145/3322276.3323692

Ovum: Designing for Fertility Tracking as a Shared and Domestic Experience

Sarah Homewood, Harvey Bewley, Laurens Boer

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Medical devices are moving out of the clinic and into the home. The design of these devices shapes our experience of interacting with our bodies. We attend to ovulation tracking devices that aid conception. We present Ovum; a research product that will be deployed in a long-term, qualitative study with couples trying to conceive. The contributions of this pictorial are the framing of the design space around at-home ovulation tracking devices and the presentation of our approach to this design space through working with oppositional experiential qualities by designing for fertility tracking as a shared, domestic and do-it-yourself experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '19 Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Number of pages	12
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	18 Jun 2019
Pages	553-565
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5850-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3323692
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2019

Keywords

Home Medical Devices
Fertility Tracking
Ovulation Monitoring
Qualitative Study
User-Centered Design

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Designers in White Coats: Deploying Ovum, a Fertility Tracking Device
Homewood, S., Boer, L. & Vallgårda, A., 25 Apr 2020, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery
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DIS '19 Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 553-565.

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