Sacred imagery in techno-spiritual design

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Sacred imagery in techno-spiritual design

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Boston, MA, USA

SESSION: Designing for other cultures table of contents

Pages 55-58

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-246-7

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Susan P. Wyche	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Kelly E. Caine	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Benjamin K. Davison	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Shwetak N. Patel	University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Michael Arteaga	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Rebecca E. Grinter	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Despite increased knowledge about how Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are used to support religious and spiritual practices, designers know little about how to design technologies for faith-related purposes. Our research suggests incorporating sacred imagery into techno-spiritual applications can be useful in guiding development. We illustrate this through the design and evaluation of a mobile phone application developed to support Islamic prayer practices. Our contribution is to show how religious imagery can be used in the design of applications that go beyond the provision of functionality to connect people to the experience of religion.

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