Ghada Alsebayel

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My Body, Their Business: User Perspectives on Commercial Data Practices in FemTech Apps

FemTech, including apps for fertility, menstruation, and menopause, increasingly shapes how users manage intimate aspects of their health. Yet these apps are often built on opaque commercial models, raising ethical concerns about consent, privacy, and misuse of sensitive health data. While prior work has documented th…

MOBILEHCI '251st AuthorReproductive & Women's Health +2

"An Ad Posing as Medical Advice": User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps

FemTech is an emerging industry offering products, software, and services to support women’s health and well-being. Within FemTech, mobile health applications (mHealth apps) are popular for managing menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, and menopause. Yet, these apps expose users to deceptive and misleading practices, w…

MOBILEHCI '241st AuthorAging-Friendly Technology Design +2

“I Believe the Baby in the Picture is My Baby”: User Experiences with Commercial Pregnancy Apps

Commercial pregnancy apps are becoming popular in mobile health and integral to health management ecosystems. For that, they can complement medical advice and be conveniently used for ubiquitous tracking of pregnancy. Besides their functional and medical purpose, they may elicit subjective, personal, and intimate expe…

CHI '223rd AuthorSerious & Functional Games +1

“Guilty of Talking Too Much”: How Psychotherapists Gamify Therapy

Traditionally, game designers have driven the development process of psychotherapeutic games with psychotherapists playing a consultant role. In contrast, our study explores psychotherapists independently designing digitally gamified psychotherapy. Our workshop participants consisted of six psychotherapists who create…

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