Toggle Main Menu Toggle Search

Open Access padlockePrints

HCI and Intimate Care as an Agenda for Change in Women's Health

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Robert Comber, Dr Madeline Balaam

Downloads


Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).


Abstract

Designing for women's healthcare remains an under explored area of HCI, particularly outside informational systems for maternal health. Drawing on a case study of a body disruption - urinary incontinence in women - we illustrate the experience of women’s health both from the perspective of the patient and the therapist. We show how knowledge, esteem and agency play crucial roles in remedial women’s care practices, as well as preventative. In describing these challenges we deliberate on possible futures of women’s health that take advantage of the many advances in design and technology from across the spectrum of HCI research. We show how with some care and courage HCI has the potential to transform women’s experience within this setting.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Almeida T, Comber R, Balaam M

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 16)

Year of Conference: 2016

Pages: 2599-2611

Online publication date: 07/05/2016

Acceptance date: 08/01/2016

Date deposited: 26/08/2016

Publisher: ACM

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858187

DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858187

Data Access Statement: http://dx.doi.org/10.17634/154300-14

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

Series Title: CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

ISBN: 9781450333627


Share