The Summer School aims to open up a space of discussion on how HCI research intersects with women’s health, and how we approach intimate data, female bodies and identities. The summer school will include a mix of keynotes and panels on self-tracking technologies for womens’ health and wellbeing, participation and design for intimacy. Participants will be exposed to a mix of methods ranging from design thinking, over exploring and “hacking” existing technologies to lof-fi prototyping of innovations.
In several sessions, we brainstorm and discuss how we might innovate personal digital technologies to improve women’s health, tackle taboos and stigmatization and increase women’s agency in dealing with intimate data. In hands-on sessions, we will prototype innovative digital technologies around women’s health, explore novel ways of interacting with intimate data or “hack” existing troublesome examples.
Are you pursuing a PhD around women’s health, long-term health tracking, care technologies, women-centered design, or feminist HCI? Then apply to participate in the Summer School on Digital Technologies for Women’s Health and Wellbeing. In addition to the main programme, the Summer School will feature informal events, a dinner, and an excursion in lovely Oldenburg.