Keynote by Anupriya Tuli, PhD, on Beyond Interfaces: Designing Health Technologies in Living Ecologies, May 20th, 2026
We are pleased to invite you to join this guest lecture, which is part of Cycles of Care, a spring workshop series at the UZH Digital Society Initiative’s Health Community: Cycles of Care.
“Beyond Interfaces: Designing Health Technologies in Living Ecologies”
📅 Wednesday, 20 May March 2026 – 18:00 – 18:45h
📍 University of Zurich, Digital Society Initiative, Building SOC, Rämistrasse 69 or 💻 Hybrid/Zoom
About the Lecture
This keynote will shift focus away from the interfaces, inviting us to look beyond screens and features into the messy realities where health technologies quietly live and breathe. It asks the audience to see these technologies not as isolated tools, but as part of a living, shifting ecology woven through people, organizations, infrastructures, culture, and everyday practices of care. Rather than smoothing over complexity, the talk centres on the tensions of designing within such entangled systems. It introduces the Socio-Ecological Canvas as a visual vocabulary to trace how design decisions are shaped by, ripple across, and in turn shape multiple layers of ecological influence.
At its heart, the keynote is an invitation. To pause. To notice the ecologies we design within and for. And to imagine, together, not only the aspired versions of existing realities but also realities that do not exist yet.
About Anupriya Tuli, PhD
Anupriya is a Digital Futures Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
As a qualitative researcher and interaction designer, she is deeply passionate about exploring both human and more-than-human aspects of technology. She directs her efforts toward understanding and crafting technology experiences that contribute to building more just and equitable futures. In particular, she researches at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), global health, taboo, marginality, and activism. Focusing on health equity, she approaches technology design as a powerful catalyst for crafting pathways toward equity and empowerment for marginalized communities.
In her Postdoc, she works alongside Madeline Balaam and Airi Lampinen to investigate the ethics around data collection methodologies when engaging participants on intimate and taboo topics and designing interactions that cultivate trust and a sense of collective care among various stakeholders throughout reproductive and menstrual journeys.
She earned a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Design from IIIT-Delhi, India, where she was jointly advised by Neha Kumar & Pushpendra Singh . Her doctoral research, set within the urban Indian landscape, focused on uncovering how the design of menstrual technologies can effectively address cultural taboos and systemic barriers, supporting individuals throughout their menstrual journeys. She received fellowships from both the Indian Government and Google to support her doctoral research (read thesis).
About the Workshop Series
Digital women’s health sits at the intersection of medicine, technology, sociology, and intersectionally feminist design. Yet, despite growing evidence of sex- and gender-specific differences, their integration into research design, data analysis, and applied practice remains fragmented, inconsistent, and methodologically underdeveloped.
This workshop series therefore brings together researchers and practitioners across medicine, technology, sociology, and feminist design who work with sex- and gender-specific data focusing on
- how to better (best) integrate such data into research and practice
- sharing evidence and best-case practices and
- identify and closing gaps and biases in data, design, communication, and care
Each workshop session will combine keynote inputs, interactive group work, and open discussion.
Contributions and materials from the sessions will feed into a living document compiling best practices, tools, and resources (e.g., validated questionnaires, datasets, GitHub repositories, R packages, and design principles). The goal is to translate these insights into a joint scholarly publication advancing the field of digital women’s health together with all interested workshop participants.