Becoming One with Kuddi: Touching Data through an Intimate Data Physicalisation
2025 (English)In: Proceedings Of The 2025 CHI Conference On Human Factors In Computing Sytems, CHI 2025, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025, article id 117Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Kuddi is a haptic data physicalisation in the form of a soft pillow which combines 12 inflatable pockets to dynamically touch and be touched in relation to the changing menstruating body. This paper presents the soma design process that led to Kuddi's design, as well as Kuddi's evaluation through an auto-ethnographic approach, where the first author lived with Kuddi for two menstrual cycles. The resulting dataset was analysed by the research team using a narrative-led approach. Based on this analysis, we present five thick descriptions that capture how the experience of living with Kuddi led to a changing relation with menstrual pain. We contribute a design case of a haptic data physicalisation intended to touch the body and discuss how the material and interaction design choices embodied in Kuddi led to data visceralisation - a way of feeling data in ways which promote new somatic knowledge and experience.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025. article id 117
Keywords [en]
Shape-changing Interfaces, Touch, Menstruation, Interaction Design, Intimate Data, Soma Design, Data Physicalisation, First Person Methods, Autoethnography
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-371924DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3713221ISI: 001496957100138Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005749634ISBN: 979-8-4007-1394-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-371924DiVA, id: diva2:2010308
Conference
2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems-CHI, APR 26-MAY 01, 2025, Yokohama, JAPAN
Note
QC 20251030
2025-10-302025-10-302025-10-30Bibliographically approved