Spirituality: There’s an App for That! (But Not a Lot of Research)

Elizabeth Buie; Mark Blythe

doi:10.1145/2468356.2468754

Spirituality: There’s an App for That! (But Not a Lot of Research)

Elizabeth Buie, Mark Blythe

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The iTunes App Store contains over six thousand apps related to spirituality and religion. The ACM digital library, however, contains only 98 works that address this topic from an HCI perspective. Despite high-profile calls for research in the area, the HCI community has produced only 19 research papers focused on the topic, almost half of which are the work of one person and her colleagues. In this paper we provide an overview of the relevant HCI research in this area, a partial inventory of spiritually oriented apps in the iTunes US App Store, and a comparison of research and real-world developments. We discuss the gaps in the HCI literature on techno-spiritual practices and speculate about some of the difficulties and challenges that face the HCI community in conducting research in this area.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Changing Perspectives
Editors	Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Patrick Baudisch, Wendy E. Mackay
Place of Publication	New York, NY, United States
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	2315-2324
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450318990
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468754
Publication status	Published - 27 Apr 2013
Event	31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:, CHI EA 2013 - Paris, France Duration: 27 Apr 2013 → 2 May 2013

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2013-April

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Conference	31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:, CHI EA 2013
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	27/04/13 → 2/05/13

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Buie, E., & Blythe, M. (2013). Spirituality: There’s an App for That! (But Not a Lot of Research). In M. Beaudouin-Lafon, P. Baudisch, & W. E. Mackay (Eds.), CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives (pp. 2315-2324). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2013-April). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468754

Buie, Elizabeth ; Blythe, Mark. / Spirituality : There’s an App for That! (But Not a Lot of Research). CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives. editor / Michel Beaudouin-Lafon ; Patrick Baudisch ; Wendy E. Mackay. New York, NY, United States : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2013. pp. 2315-2324 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Buie, E & Blythe, M 2013, Spirituality: There’s an App for That! (But Not a Lot of Research). in M Beaudouin-Lafon, P Baudisch & WE Mackay (eds), CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 2013-April, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, NY, United States, pp. 2315-2324, 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:, CHI EA 2013, Paris, France, 27/04/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468754

Spirituality : There’s an App for That! (But Not a Lot of Research). / Buie, Elizabeth; Blythe, Mark.

CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives. ed. / Michel Beaudouin-Lafon; Patrick Baudisch; Wendy E. Mackay. New York, NY, United States : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2013. p. 2315-2324 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2013-April).

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Buie E, Blythe M. Spirituality: There’s an App for That! (But Not a Lot of Research). In Beaudouin-Lafon M, Baudisch P, Mackay WE, editors, CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2013. p. 2315-2324. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468754

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