In Brazil, there has been an exponential growth in the evangelical population over the past few decades, a change that mirrors the acceleration of technology use in the country that may have implications for spiritual practices in these communities. From the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) perspective, what is the influence of computational artifacts on spiritual practice? What are the main opportunities to improve the experience of these users? Such questions led us to conduct an exploratory study on how interactive computational artifacts have been supporting the spiritual practices of people in Brazil. This paper presents a survey conducted with 107 Brazilian evangelicals to analyze interactive computational artifacts in spiritual contexts. We applied thematic analysis, and the results indicated, for example, the need for a balanced integration of technologies with spiritual traditions and highlighted the role of spiritual leadership in guiding the conscious use of these tools. In this sense, this research contributes to HCI by providing the importance of ensuring that these artifacts are culturally sensitive to the spiritual context.

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Between the Spiritual and the Digital: Computing in the Socioenactive Dimensions of Brazilian Evangelical Spiritual Practices

  • Jean C. S. Rosa,
  • Guilherme I. S. Paes,
  • Adriana L. Damian,
  • Isabela L. Arruda,
  • Robert B. Markum

摘要

In Brazil, there has been an exponential growth in the evangelical population over the past few decades, a change that mirrors the acceleration of technology use in the country that may have implications for spiritual practices in these communities. From the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) perspective, what is the influence of computational artifacts on spiritual practice? What are the main opportunities to improve the experience of these users? Such questions led us to conduct an exploratory study on how interactive computational artifacts have been supporting the spiritual practices of people in Brazil. This paper presents a survey conducted with 107 Brazilian evangelicals to analyze interactive computational artifacts in spiritual contexts. We applied thematic analysis, and the results indicated, for example, the need for a balanced integration of technologies with spiritual traditions and highlighted the role of spiritual leadership in guiding the conscious use of these tools. In this sense, this research contributes to HCI by providing the importance of ensuring that these artifacts are culturally sensitive to the spiritual context.