Lena Rechberger

PhD student at Department of Informatics and Media

E-mail:
lena.rechberger@im.uu.se
Visiting address:
Ekonomikum (plan 3)
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
Postal address:
Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA

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Short presentation

Lena Rechberger is a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction. Rechberger has a master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction with additional courses in gender studies. In her PhD project, she studies fatherhood and digital parenthood technologies such as pregnancy and baby tracking apps from a critical feminist perspective.

Keywords

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Feminist HCI
  • fatherhood
  • masculinity theories
  • apps for parenthood
  • pregnancy apps
  • baby tracking

Research

Rechberger's research started out within the project ”Controlling the Uncontrollable: The Impact of Reproductive Health Apps on Experiences of Pregnancy, Healthcare Professionals’ Work and Data Governance” funded by the Swedish Research Council. In the project we study experiences with reproductive health applications from different perspectives.

In her own research, Rechberger focuses on fathers'/partners' perspectives on digital parenthood technologies. Using a combination of qualitative methods, she studies both user experiences and the design of commercial pregnancy and baby tracking apps. The research is situated between feminist HCI and critical studies of men and masculinities, as Rechberger aims to provide a critical perspective on the socio-cultural entanglements of everyday technologies, fatherhood and gender.

Lena Rechberger