Intimate care: exploring eTextiles for teaching female pelvic fitness

Teresa Almeida; Rob Comber; Patrick Olivier; Madeline Balaam

doi:10.1145/2598784.2602768

Intimate care: exploring eTextiles for teaching female pelvic fitness

Teresa Almeida, Rob Comber, Patrick Olivier, Madeline Balaam

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Abstract

Intimate care is integral to the lifecourse, and it includes care tasks that are linked to personal hygiene, bodily functions and products. In this paper, we explore the potential of eTextiles as catalysts for conversations around intimate care. We designed a kit that integrates eTextiles as the core material to teach and learn about intimate parts of the self and to support body literacy. We deployed this design kit in an educational context, with a group of six female participants aged 15-16. We suggest avenues for future research within health and wellbeing, in combination with smart, wearable materials.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS’14 Companion Publication of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Subtitle of host publication	June 21–25, 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada
Editors	Shaowen Bardzell, Carman Neustaedter, Eric Paulos
Place of Publication	New York NY US
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	5-8
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781450329033
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2598784.2602768
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	Designing Interactive Systems 2014 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 21 Jun 2014 → 25 Jun 2014 http://www.dis2014.org/

Conference

Conference	Designing Interactive Systems 2014
Abbreviated title	DIS 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	21/06/14 → 25/06/14
Internet address	http://www.dis2014.org/

Keywords

Body literacy
Care
Craft
Design
ETextiles
Health
Materiality
Wearable
Wellbeing

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Almeida, T., Comber, R., Olivier, P., & Balaam, M. (2014). Intimate care: exploring eTextiles for teaching female pelvic fitness. In S. Bardzell, C. Neustaedter, & E. Paulos (Eds.), DIS’14 Companion Publication of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: June 21–25, 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada (pp. 5-8). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2598784.2602768

Almeida, Teresa ; Comber, Rob ; Olivier, Patrick et al. / Intimate care : exploring eTextiles for teaching female pelvic fitness. DIS’14 Companion Publication of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: June 21–25, 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada. editor / Shaowen Bardzell ; Carman Neustaedter ; Eric Paulos. New York NY US : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. pp. 5-8

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Almeida, T, Comber, R, Olivier, P & Balaam, M 2014, Intimate care: exploring eTextiles for teaching female pelvic fitness. in S Bardzell, C Neustaedter & E Paulos (eds), DIS’14 Companion Publication of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: June 21–25, 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY US, pp. 5-8, Designing Interactive Systems 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 21/06/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2598784.2602768

Intimate care: exploring eTextiles for teaching female pelvic fitness. / Almeida, Teresa; Comber, Rob; Olivier, Patrick et al.
DIS’14 Companion Publication of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: June 21–25, 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada. ed. / Shaowen Bardzell; Carman Neustaedter; Eric Paulos. New York NY US: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. p. 5-8.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other

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Almeida T, Comber R, Olivier P, Balaam M. Intimate care: exploring eTextiles for teaching female pelvic fitness. In Bardzell S, Neustaedter C, Paulos E, editors, DIS’14 Companion Publication of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: June 21–25, 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada. New York NY US: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2014. p. 5-8 doi: 10.1145/2598784.2602768

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