Anna Vallgårda

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Gut-Tracking as Cultivation

Contemporary self-tracking devices take forms that reflect particular cultures of self-tracking that emphasize clinical perspectives and numerical precision. In this pictorial, we explore alternative forms to speculate on other possible self-tracking cultures. We present how we involved experts on the relationship bet…

DIS '20CorrespondingDiet Tracking & Nutrition Management

Putting Phenomenological Theories to Work in the Design of Self-Tracking Technologies

Existing self-tracking devices have been criticized for perpetuating a dualist, rather than phenomenological, understanding of the self as a separated mind and body. In this paper we answer calls for a phenomenological approach to the design of self-tracking devices. Ambient Cycle is a menstrual cycle tracking device…

DIS '20CorrespondingCognitive Impairment & Neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) +1

Removal as a Method: A Fourth Wave HCI Approach to Understanding the Experience of Self-Tracking

This paper offers first-steps guidance towards the development of a methodology that embodies theoretical proposals for a fourth-wave, ‘entanglement’ approach to HCI. We propose the removal of technologies and the documenting of their absence as a method. Removal disrupts habitual relationships with our everyday techn…

CHI '20CorrespondingReproductive & Women's Health +1

Designers in White Coats: Deploying Ovum, a Fertility Tracking Device

As self-tracking practices continue to proliferate, there has been a call for a consideration of how the design of these devices influence the users experience of themselves and their bodies beyond utility, efficacy and accuracy. The research product Ovum was designed to facilitate a DIY, shared, domestic experience,…

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