TY - GEN
T1 - Spirituality
T2 - 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:, CHI EA 2013
AU - Buie, Elizabeth
AU - Blythe, Mark
PY - 2013/4/27
Y1 - 2013/4/27
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Religion
KW - Spirituality
KW - Techno-spirituality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887382489&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2468356.2468754
DO - 10.1145/2468356.2468754
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84887382489
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2315
EP - 2324
BT - CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A2 - Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel
A2 - Baudisch, Patrick
A2 - Mackay, Wendy E.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
CY - New York, NY, United States
Y2 - 27 April 2013 through 2 May 2013
ER -