Let’s Talk Menopause: Promoting Intergenerational Dialogue about Menopause through DesignMenopause is an important life transition characterised by physiological, emotional, and social changes. It is surrounded by stigma and taboo. Thus, conversations about menopause are often rare, even among family members, and people often don’t know what to expect from menopause. We leverage design and collaborative making to promote (intergenerational) communication about menopause, between mothers and daughters, and between members of a broader audience. We describe a collaborative Research through Design process where we collaborated with six mother-daughter dyads to create material representations capturing and describing their diverse menopause experiences. Iterating on these representations, we designed and exhibited 5 interactive artifacts at Dutch Design Week 2024. We contribute with empirical findings on plural experiences around menopause, present the five artifacts built upon these experiences, and discuss the importance of pluralizing narratives around menopause through design.2025DODaisy O'Neill et al.Empowerment of Marginalized GroupsDesign FictionDIS
Changing Perspective on Data in Designing for Active EnvironmentsSmart solutions provide increasing quality and availability of data. This brings new challenges for designers as it offers novel design opportunities and interlaces disciplines. At the same time, physical inactivity is a big societal challenge and dedicated urban planning and design can contribute to more active lifestyles. In this paper, we investigate how user-generated big data can support designers in shaping more activity-friendly and adaptive environments, addressing both timely challenges. Bridging the fields of HCI and urbanism, we introduce two data lenses. The individual lens primarily builds on empathic design skills and calls for a highly personal approach. The collective lens emphasizes systematic and holistic design skills, focusing on creating overview and surfacing collective interests. Through exploratory data visualizations, using a large dataset from a run-tracking smartphone application combined with public data sources, and a workshop, we investigate how these lenses can yield meaningful insights. We discuss the value of these lenses to the urban design and HCI communities and address the challenges and opportunities that arise at the cross-section of these perspectives.2024LRLoes van Renswouw et al.Geospatial & Map VisualizationSmart Cities & Urban SensingSustainable HCIDIS
Unpacking Norms, Narratives, and Nourishment: A Feminist HCI Critique on Food Tracking TechnologiesFood tracking applications (apps) can provide benefits (e.g., helping diagnose food intolerances) but can also create harm (e.g., facilitating disordered eating). However, food tracking apps—viewed as a women’s health issue, and critically examined through the lens of feminist HCI—are absent from the discourse of sociocultural, ethical, and political implications of apps designed to track bodily data. We use a walkthrough method to critically analyze three commercial food tracking apps with differing marketing narratives and designs, applying a reflexive feminist lens grounded in a perspective of fat liberation. We articulate how these apps reproduce normativities of food and nutrition, health, and bodies, and how they perpetuate narratives of embodiment, simplification and quantification of health, and neoliberalism and the individualization of health. Our work exposes the normativities of bodies being propagated by food tracking apps, spotlighting how designs and interaction features are situated within prevalent anti-fat narratives.2024DODaisy O'Neill et al.Eindhoven University of Technology, Philips Experience DesignDiet Tracking & Nutrition ManagementCHI
Design for co-responsibility: connecting patients, partners, and professionals in bariatric lifestyle changesMost health technologies to support lifestyle changes after bariatric (weight-loss) surgery are aimed at the individual patient. However, lifestyle changes cannot be done in isolation, but are a co-responsibility between patient, Health Care Professionals (HCPs), and the social context; most dominantly the partner. We want to investigate the potential value of an intelligent ecosystem that is designed for this co-responsibility. We present a clinical trial following an explorative data-enabled approach. We deploy an ecosystem consisting of data trackers and personalized coaching interventions with six patients and their partners. Based on various use cases, we identify six ways in which designing for co-responsibility can bring value: by (1) identifying the right intervention, (2) assessing the effectiveness of the intervention, (3) allowing patients to seek support when needed, (4) awareness of co-responsibilities within the couple (5) helping the partner in understanding how to be of help, and (6) preventative care.2020JJJos-Marien Jansen et al.Mental Health Apps & Online Support CommunitiesChronic Disease Self-Management (Diabetes, Hypertension, etc.)DIS
Econundrum: Visualizing the Climate Impact of Dietary Choice through a Shared Data SculptureWhile there is a strong relationship between climate change and human food consumption, it is challenging to understand the implications and impact from an individual perspective. The lack of a shared frame of reference, that allows people to compare their impact to others, limits awareness on this complex topic. To support group reflections and social comparison of the impact of people’s food consumption on climate change, we designed Econundrum, a shared physical data sculpture that visualizes carbon emissions resulting from dietary choices of a small community. Our three-week field study demonstrates how Econundrum helped people (i) understand the climate impact of various food types, (ii) reflect on the environmental impact of their food choices; and (iii) discuss the relation between climate impact and food consumption with others. Our study shows how a shared physical data sculpture mediates a complex topic to a community by facilitating the social dynamics in context.2020KSKim Sauvé et al.Data PhysicalizationSustainable HCIEcological Design & Green ComputingDIS
The TA Framework: Designing Real-time Teaching Augmentation for K-12 ClassroomsRecently, the HCI community has seen increased interest in the design of teaching augmentation (TA): tools that extend and complement teachers' pedagogical abilities during ongoing classroom activities. Examples of TA systems are emerging across multiple disciplines, taking various forms: e.g., ambient displays, wearables, or learning analytics dashboards. However, these diverse examples have not been analyzed together to derive more fundamental insights into the design of teaching augmentation. Addressing this opportunity, we broadly synthesize existing cases to propose the TA framework. Our framework specifies a rich design space in five dimensions, to support the design and analysis of teaching augmentation. We contextualize the framework using existing designs cases, to surface underlying design trade-offs: for example, balancing actionability of presented information with teachers' needs for professional autonomy, or balancing unobtrusiveness with informativeness in the design of TA systems. Applying the TA framework, we identify opportunities for future research and design.2020PAPengcheng An et al.Eindhoven University of TechnologyK-12 Digital Education ToolsCollaborative Learning & Peer TeachingCHI
The Role of Everyday Sounds in Advanced Dementia CareThe representation of sounds derived from everyday life can be beneficial for people with dementia by evoking memories and emotional responses. Despite this potential, integrating sound and sound-based interventions in care facilities has not received much research attention. In this paper, we present the findings from a field study that explored the responses of 19 people with advanced dementia to a selection of everyday sounds presented to them in a care home and the role of these responses in the care environment. To study this, we deployed Vita, a 'pillow-like' sound player, in two dementia care facilities for four weeks, during which observations were recorded. Afterwards, we conducted interviews with caregivers who used Vita in everyday care practice. Our findings reveal how everyday sounds provided by Vita stimulated meaningful conversation, playfulness, and connection between residents and caregivers. Furthermore, we propose design implications for integrating everyday sounds in dementia care.2020MHMaarten Houben et al.Eindhoven University of Technology & Tilburg UniversityElderly Care & Dementia SupportCHI
Exploring the Value of Parent Tracked Baby Data in Interactions with Healthcare Professionals: A Data-enabled Design ExplorationThis paper presents a designerly exploration of the potential values of parent-tracked baby data in interactions between parents and healthcare professionals (HCPs). Where previous work has used parent-tracked data as part of the solution to a problem, we contribute by starting our design exploration from data, using it as creative material in our design process. As we intend to work towards a system that could be viable across different levels of care, we invited three different types of HCPs and five families with newborns, for a five-week situated design exploration. Facilitated by an open and dynamic data collection toolkit, parents and HCPs could together decide what data to collect. In a continuous dialogue, they reflected on the relevance of that data in their interaction. Based on this, we continuously and remotely developed two concepts.2018JKJanne van Kollenburg et al.Philips Design, Eindhoven University of TechnologyMental Health Apps & Online Support CommunitiesChronic Disease Self-Management (Diabetes, Hypertension, etc.)Telemedicine & Remote Patient MonitoringCHI
SIG: Enhancing SIGCHI Membership BenefitsParticipants who attend CHI automatically become a member of the Special Interest Group in Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI). Being a member of SIGCHI entitles its members to a variety of benefits, such as student grants, conference discounts, research magazines, etc. However, how do SIGCHI members experience their membership? What kind of benefits do members want and need? In a recent survey conducted by the SIGCHI Communications and Membership team, we found that current members seek the opportunity to communicate (present) their research and that they want to learn from each other. This SIG is a great opportunity to discuss with the SIGCHI Communications and Membership team on how to serve its members better. It is open to everyone, from CHI 2018 newcomers to long-standing members of SIGCHI.2018RBRegina Bernhaupt et al.ruwidoParticipatory DesignUser Research Methods (Interviews, Surveys, Observation)CHI