Critiquing Menstrual Pain Technologies through the Lens of Feminist Disability StudiesShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2024, article id 102Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Menstrual pain or dysmenorrhea refers to abdominal cramping or pain before and during menstruation, causing a spectrum of discomfort among people who menstruate. Menstrual pain is often regarded as 'female trouble', as a nuisance that gets dismissed or as a symptom requiring medical intervention. While there are FemTech products that explicitly attend to menstrual pain, they predominantly seek to hide it without accounting for the lived experience of this pain. In this paper we use feminist disability studies (FDS) as a critical analytical lens to reframe the understanding of menstrual pain. Using this lens, we conduct an interaction critique of FemTech market exemplars for alleviating menstrual pain. We then ofer three design provocations to better design menstrual pain technology and call for designers to attend to menstrual pain as a cyclical, chronic lived experience with the potential of spurring leaky contagious coalitions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2024. article id 102
Keywords [en]
crip theory, design provocations, dysmenorrhea, feminist disability studies, Feminist HCI, FemTech, interaction criticism, menstrual pain
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-347651DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642691ISI: 001259864905017Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85194899795OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-347651DiVA, id: diva2:1869246
Conference
2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024, Hybrid, Honolulu, United States of America, May 11 2024 - May 16 2024
Note
Not duplicate with DiVA 1844774
Part of ISBN: 9798400703300
QC 20241014
2024-06-122024-06-122024-10-15Bibliographically approved