This paper examines the opportunities and issues that arise in designing technologies to
support low-income rural women in Bangladesh. Through a qualitative, empirical study with …

Empowering people through technology is of increasing concern in the HCI community.
However, there are different interpretations of empowerment, which diverge substantially …

Understanding users becomes increasingly complicated when we grapple with various
overlap** attributes of an individual's identity. In this paper we introduce intersectionality …

We consider why and how women track their menstrual cycles, examining their experiences
to uncover design opportunities and extend the field's understanding of personal informatics …

Social stigma and human exceptionalism have contributed to unsustainable menstrual
products and a neglect for the nutrients in menstrual blood that can enrich soil. In a …

This paper traces different conceptions of the body in HCI and identifies a narrative from
user to body, body to bodies, and bodies to more-than-human bodies. Firstly, this paper …

The overturn of Roe v. Wade has taken away the constitutional right to abortion. Prior work
shows that period-tracking apps' data practices can be used to detect pregnancy and …

We report on the design processes of two ongoing soma design projects: the Pelvic Chair
and the Breathing Wings. These projects take a first-person, soma design approach …

An ever-increasing body of work within HCI investigates questions of around “Women's
Health” with the aim to disrupt the status quo of defaulting to an implicit norm of cis-male …

We describe a Research through Design project-Curious Cycles-a collection of objects and
interactions which encourage people to be in close contact with their menstruating body …