Tech4Endo is a research project developing technologies to support people living with endometriosis and improve their quality of life.
We take a holistic, inclusive approach that puts lived experience at the centre of design. By listening to real stories and needs, we aim to create tools that reflect the diversity of bodies, identities, and ways of living with endometriosis.
This project is built around listening to voices that are too often overlooked in healthcare and technology: women, trans and non-binary people, and the wider LGBTQ+ community. Our goal is to empower everyone affected by endometriosis to feel seen, supported, and heard.
Our team brings together researchers from Computer Science, Interaction Design, Psychology, Sociology, and Healthcare to ensure a broad and grounded approach to this work.
Critically analyse personal technologies claiming to help manage endometriosis, including mobile apps and wearables.
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Explore how participants use technology to manage life with endometriosis.
Participants share photographs capturing how endometriosis impacts their lives.
With a good understanding of the self-management needs of people with endometriosis that aren’t being met by current technologies and what works (and what doesn’t) in existing self-management tools, we will move on to designing several technologies to support those living with endometriosis.
Develop mobile apps, wearables, and/or smart objects informed by research insights.
Co-refine prototypes with participants and finalise designs for potential commercialisation.
17-19 June: Panel discussion on the id-care research – Thinking Gender Justice conference (UCD)
June (TBC): Hospital-based research promotion event
March: Public exhibition of participants’ photographs and technology prototypes – Lavit Gallery, Cork
The tech4endo project featured in the funding announcement by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
