Mediating the Sacred: Configuring a Design Space for Religious and Spiritual Tangible Interactive Artifacts

RB Markum, S Wolf, C Claisse, M Hoefer - Proceedings of the Eighteenth …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Tangible artifacts and embodied experiences are central to religious and spiritual (R/S)
practices, and many HCI researchers and interaction designers highlight the importance of …

" Tuning in and listening to the current": Understanding Remote Ritual Practice in Sufi Communities

S Kozubaev, N Howell - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Design research and HCI increasingly explore techno-spirituality. We investigated Sufi
practices of group zikr, a ritual practice of remembrance of God. We focus on zikr groups that …

Still Not a Lot of Research? Re-Examining HCI Research on Religion and Spirituality

S Wolf, P Friedrich, J Hurtienne - … Abstracts of the CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A decade after Buie and Blythe's review" Spirituality: There's an App for That!(But Not a Lot
of Research)", this sequel assesses the evolving landscape of Human-Computer Interaction …

Dr. Convenience Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Voice Assistant

SB Shalawadi, F Echtler, D Raptis - Nordic Human-Computer Interaction …, 2024 - vbn.aau.dk
This paper explores the relationship between privacy concerns from voice assistant (VA)
users and their persistent dependence on these devices for convenience. To gain a deeper …