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Designing with Discomfort: A Feminist Approach towards Intimate Care Technologies

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Joo Young ParkAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Pages 30 - 36

https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3665134

Published: 01 July 2024 Publication History

Abstract

Intimacy is conventionally associated with familiarity and comfort. Yet, within the temporal unfolding of intimate relations comes discomfort, ambivalences, breakdowns, and disruptions. My dissertation research builds on this critical and feminist understanding of intimacy and relations to design long-term and plural modes of intimate care technologies. I present three previous research projects that use discomfort as a resource for intimate technologies. These include affective discomfort, menstrual discomfort, and unhabitual movements. Inspired by feminist crip technoscience and feminist theories on materiality of bodies, I inquire how we could design intimate technologies that enrich long-term and embodied relationship with our own menstruating bodies. In my upcoming studies, I plan to investigate the potential of close-to-body shape-changing touch as a modality for generating situated bodily knowledge and fostering proactive self-care for menstrual pain.

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Index Terms

Designing with Discomfort: A Feminist Approach towards Intimate Care Technologies
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
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DIS '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

July 2024

501 pages

ISBN:9798400706325

DOI:10.1145/3656156

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IT University of Copenhagen
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Li Jönsson
Malmö University
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Jonas Fritsch
IT University of Copenhagen
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Sarah Fdili Alaoui
LISN-Université Paris Saclay
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Christopher A. Le Dantec
Northeastern University

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Campo Woytuk NBell FPark JAlistar MBalaam M(2024)A Plurality of More-than-Humanness: Feminist Speculations for Designing with the Vaginal MicrobiomeProceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium10.1145/3686169.3686170(1-10)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2024
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