Rebecca Stewart

Holding MenstaRay: Expressing Menstrual Pain through Tactile and Knitted Soft Robotic Interactions

Menstrual pain is an embodied, unpredictable, and diverse lived experience. However, current menstrual tracking technologies mainly adopt medicalised and quantitative approaches, reducing pain to numerical data, concealing its organic and messy nature. To uncover the felt, lived experience of pain, we explored soft ro…