“It'sa girl thing” Examining Challenges and Opportunities around Menstrual Health Education in India

A Tuli, S Dalvi, N Kumar, P Singh - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Cultural taboos and limiting social norms make it challenging to communicate and teach
about menstrual health in India. We present findings from an inquiry of current approaches …

Feedpal: Understanding opportunities for chatbots in breastfeeding education of women in india

D Yadav, P Malik, K Dabas, P Singh - … of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Use of chatbots in different spheres of life is continuously increasing since a couple of years.
We attempt to understand the potential of chatbots for breastfeeding education by …

Rethinking menstrual trackers towards period-positive ecologies

A Tuli, S Singh, R Narula, N Kumar… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Menstrual tracking is a mechanism widely engaged towards preserving menstrual dignity, as
natural birth control, for ensuring adequate preparation for an upcoming cycle, among other …

Reimagining (women's) health: HCI, gender and essentialised embodiment

O Keyes, B Peil, RM Williams, K Spiel - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
An ever-increasing body of work within HCI investigates questions of around “Women's
Health” with the aim to disrupt the status quo of defaulting to an implicit norm of cis-male …

AdolescentBot: Understanding opportunities for chatbots in combating adolescent sexual and reproductive health problems in Bangladesh

R Rahman, MR Rahman, NI Tripto, ME Ali… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Traditional face-to-face health consultation-based systems largely failed to attract teenagers
to get reproductive and sexual health supports from doctors and practitioners in Bangladesh …

Challenges and issues integrating smartphones into teacher support programs in India

RA Varanasi, A Vashistha, T Parikh, N Dell - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Current ICTD best practices call on practitioner organizations that deploy technology
interventions with marginalized communities to commit to long-term engagements and …

Sociocultural dimensions of tracking health and taking care

KS Bhat, N Kumar - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The field of personal health informatics has received increasing attention within the CSCW
and HCI communities as health tracking becomes more affordable, accessible, and …

Patriarchy, maternal health and spiritual healing: Designing maternal health interventions in Pakistan

M Mustafa, A Batool, B Fatima, F Nawaz… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We examine the opportunities and challenges in designing for maternal health in low-
income, low-resource communities in patriarchal and religious contexts. Pakistan faces a …

“That courage to encourage”: Participation and Aspirations in Chat-based Peer Support for Youth Living with HIV

N Karusala, DO Seeh, C Mugo, B Guthrie… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based facilitated peer
support groups, serving youth living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in an informal …

Living with uncertainty and stigma: self-experimentation and support-seeking around polycystic ovary syndrome

S Chopra, R Zehrung, TA Shanmugam… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that causes hormonal imbalance and
infertility in women and people with female reproductive organs. PCOS causes different …