"A Feminist HCI Approach to Designing Postpartum Technologies: ""When I first saw a breast pump ...
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Crowdsourcing yields 1,136 ideas about the breastpump, analyzed with a 30+ code grounded theory codebook that surfaces concrete failures: bulky, tethered hardware; cold, hard materials; hard-to-clean parts; and pervasive stigma and trauma tied to workplace and policy constraints. Top design levers are mobility, comfort, discretion plus better shareability and smart tracking; organizers put ideas on GitHub, ran a hackathon with industry participation and a Medela sponsorship, and push for advocacy-focused, generative prompts.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 0:47What is a breastpump
- 3:19Mothers' experiences with pumping
- 5:28Hackathon and crowdsourcing ideas
- 7:56Key themes from mothers' ideas
- 12:19Human-centered design insights
- 13:22Ethical crowdsourcing reflections
- 14:24Feminist HCI and advocacy
- 16:33Q&A with audience
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