FeedFinder: A Location-Mapping Mobile Application for Breastfeeding WomenShow others and affiliations
2015 (English)In: CHI 2015: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 33RD ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY , 2015, p. 1709-1718Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Breastfeeding is positively encouraged across many countries as a public health endeavour. The World Health Organisation recommends breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months of an infant's life. However, women can struggle to breastfeed, and to persist with breastfeeding, for a number of reasons from technique to social acceptance. This paper reports on four phases of a design and research project, from sensitising user-engagement and user-centred design, to the development and in-the-wild deployment of a mobile phone application called FeedFinder. FeedFinder has been developed with breastfeeding women to support them in finding, reviewing and sharing public breastfeeding places with other breastfeeding women. We discuss how mobile technologies can be designed to support public health endeavours, and suggest that public health technologies are better aimed at communities and societies rather than individual.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY , 2015. p. 1709-1718
Keywords [en]
breastfeeding, mobile, user-centred design, public health, preventative health
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-259239DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702328ISI: 000412395501090Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84951174905OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-259239DiVA, id: diva2:1471914
Conference
CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Note
QC 20201012
2020-09-302020-09-302024-03-18Bibliographically approved