Crimson Wave: Shedding Light on Menstrual Health

Crimson Wave is a personal tangible user interface that generates and displays information about its user's menstrual cycle. Basal Body Temperature (BBT) is an individual's temperature at rest, which fluctuates throughout menstruation. Crimson Wave tracks the user's BBT through the wearable armband and then displays the data visually on a separate smart mirror. Specifically, the mirror lights up a color corresponding to the menstrual stage the user is experiencing. Crimson Wave offers a novel method of keeping track of one's health and integrating one's own menstrual information seamlessly into daily life. The combination of live and aggregated personalized data helps users optimize each day. Crimson Wave is helpful to people who are interested in being more informed about their cycles, especially when they are irregular. In this paper, we describe the concept behind Crimson Wave, as well as its implementation and iterations.