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Madeline Balaam is a professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology specializing in Interaction Design with a focus on health and wellbeing. Her research centers on the design and development of technologies that engage with people's everyday lives, emphasizing participatory and user-centered design methods. Over the past decade, she has focused on the design and study of intimate technologies—technological innovations that relate to intimate body parts and processes, as well as intimate relationships. Balaam leads a research group dedicated to exploring digital innovations that transform interactions with the intimate body, including projects like 'Menarche Bits', which re-imagines menstrual technologies, and 'Pelvic Chair', which examines the use of touch in intimate technologies. She has also worked on the user-generated app 'FeedFinder', which supports breastfeeding mothers by providing tools to find and review public breastfeeding locations. Her work has resulted in a unique dataset capturing women's experiences with breastfeeding in public spaces, published in BMJ Open. Balaam's contributions have been recognized with awards, including a best paper award at CHI 2016 for her research on mobile technologies that raise women's knowledge of intimate anatomy. Before joining KTH, she was a research fellow at the Interaction Lab at the University of Sussex.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology • Stockholm, Sweden
Conducting research in Interaction Design, focusing on health and wellbeing, and mentoring students.
Interaction Lab, University of Sussex • Brighton, UK
Worked on projects related to pervasive computing and emotional experiences in learning contexts.
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