Consentful Lights: Designing for Consent when Sharing Intimate Fertility Data Show others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 8 2026 (English) In: DIS '26: Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference / [ed] Ching Chiuan Yen; Jung-Joo Lee; Ellen Yi-Luen Do; Clement Zheng; Daisy Yoo; Tony Tang, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2026, p. 2681-2695Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
How should we design for consent? Consent is commonly integrated into products and interactions as binary, static, transactional, and something that should be recorded rather than discussed. Through a Research through Design process, we respond to a call to translate conceptual framings of consent into concrete artifacts and interactions in the context of digital contraception. We contribute with the Consentful Lights, a set of artifacts that enable partners to access intimate fertility data in a co-located setting through play and touch; inviting them to participate in a consentful interaction that is embodied, dynamic, explicit, and shared. Through an in-the-lab exploration of the Consentful Lights, we find that they have the potential to nurture a consentful moment and allow for deterring non-consensual access to intimate data. We conclude with a discussion on the need to pluralize the design of consentful interactions and a reflection on embedding feminist values into design artifacts.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2026. p. 2681-2695
Keywords [en]
Consent, Feminist Interaction Techniques, Feminist IxD, Intimate Data, Personal Data
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-258663 DOI: 10.1145/3800645.3812866 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105042872202 ISBN: 979-8-4007-2563-0 (print) OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-258663 DiVA, id: diva2:2096164
Conference 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2026), Singapore, 13-17 June, 2026
2026-08-282026-08-282026-08-28 Bibliographically approved