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Invisibility or Visibility in Intimate Care at the Workplace?: Examining the Use of Breast Pumps
Stockholm Univ, Dept Comp & Syst Sci, Stockholm, Sweden.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9472-3805
Stockholm Univ, Dept Comp & Syst Sci, Stockholm, Sweden.
2023 (English)In: CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Advances in intimate care technologies and on-body wearables are disrupting how and where we think about and care for our bodies. The boundaries between private and public are increasingly porous. This offers new sites for studying intimate care as technology-use-inpractice. We present a qualitative study on the use of breast pumps in the workplace, based on semi-structured interviews with 19 individuals. Through this, we contribute an illustration of the complexities in carrying out intimate care work at the workplace and what it means to be pumping at the workplace. Our analysis unpacks (in)visibility as a crucial tension in the use of breast pumps in the workplace. We discuss how (in)visibility of personal medical devices plays a mediating role in how individuals exercise bodily rights, and the norms of who fits into professional settings.

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2023.
Keywords [en]
Body, breast pumps, intimate care, breastfeeding, invisibility, visibility
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Nursing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-339594DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581411ISI: 001048393805001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85160013355OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-339594DiVA, id: diva2:1812005
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CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), APR 23-28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany
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Available from: 2023-11-15 Created: 2023-11-15 Last updated: 2023-11-15Bibliographically approved

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