Research project Layering Trust in Intimate Digital Health Technologies

This project focuses on trust relations related to Natural Cycles, the first algorithmic contraceptive method on the market. We examine how trust is developed and maintained.

We work from the standpoint that health choices, health behaviours, and critically, trust in healthcare service providers are interpersonal and socially constructed. Our qualitative research looks beyond the individual user, engaging also with the wider social context of ”use”.

As a part of this project, we engage with participants through design workshops. We want to learn more about how they come to trust new contraceptive methods, but also about trust between people who make choices about contraception.

The project is carried out in collaboration with Natural Cycles.