A Feminist HCI Approach to Designing Postpartum Technologies "When I first saw a breast pump I was wondering if it was a joke"
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CHI_Breast_Pump_Paper_2015.pdf
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Author(s)
D'Ignazio, Catherine
Gottlieb, Alexis Hope
Michelson, Becky
Churchill, Robyn
Zuckerman, Ethan
Date Issued
2016
Journal
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM Press
Citation
D'Ignazio, Catherine et al. 'A Feminist HCI Approach to Designing Postpartum Technologies: "When I first saw a breast pump I was wondering if it was a joke". ' Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2016, San Jose, California, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, May 2016 © The Author(s)
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Abstract
In recent years, the CHI community has begun to discuss how HCI research could improve the experience of motherhood. In this paper, we take up the challenge of designing for this complex life phase and present an analysis of data collected from a design process that included over 1,000 mother-submitted ideas to improve the breast pump, a technology that allows mothers around the world to collect and store their breast milk. In addition to presenting a range of ideas to improve this specific technology, we discuss environmental, legal, social, and emotional dimensions of the postpartum period that suggest opportunities for a range of additional supportive technologies. We close with insights linking our findings to ongoing discussions related to Feminist HCI theory, crowdsourcing, and participatory design.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858460
https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858460
