Integrating Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in HCI

Rifat, Mohammad Rashidujjaman; Peer, Firaz; Rabaan, Hawra; Mim, Nusrat Jahan; Mustafa, Maryam; Toyama, Kentaro; Markum, Robert B.; Buie, Elizabeth; Hammer, Jessica; Sultana, Sharifa; Sabie, Samar; Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque

doi:10.1145/3491101.3503705

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“…However, recent efforts in HCI have begun to question the secularization of computing systems first in how they might have marginalised faith-based values and systems [127], and second in how faith-informatics can widen the link between religious traditions, individual systems of sense-making, and technological innovation [86]. There is also the consideration of how religious values shape identities of innovation; first by understanding how religious practices direct the design and adoption of interventions to support pluralist belief systems, and second by reflecting upon ways in which specific computing systems present opportunities/and limitations for interfaith communities [153].…”

Section: Theological Re-awakeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

No More “Solutionism” or “Saviourism” in Futuring African HCI: A Manyfesto

Adamu

2023

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Research in HCI4D has continuously advanced a narrative of ‘lacks’ and ‘gaps’ of the African perspective in technoscience. In response to such misguided assumptions, this paper attempts to reformulate the common and perhaps unfortunate thinking about African practices of design in HCI4D – i.e., largely as a function of African societal predicaments and Western technocratic resolutions. Through critical reflection on a range of issues associated with post-colonialism and post-development, I examine the possibilities that various historical tropes might offer to the reinvention of the African perspective on innovation. This leads to the consideration of how engaging in critical discussions about the future dimensions of African HCI can allow for grappling with the effect of the coloniality of being, power and knowledge. Developing on the ideas of futuring as a way of dealing with the complexities of the present – in this case the coloniality of the imagination - the paper ends by discussing three tactical propositions for ‘remembering’ future identities of African innovation where the values of autonomy are known and acted upon.

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Section: Theological Re-awakeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

No More “Solutionism” or “Saviourism” in Futuring African HCI: A Manyfesto

Adamu

2023

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…Recent scholarship from Pakistan and Bangladesh has recognized religion in understanding sociocultural norms and values [2,15,51,52]. In the context of the subcontinent, the concept of religious 'piety' is of particular importance as it informs key norms around privacy and surveillance for practicing Muslims.…”

Section: Religion and Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Pakistani Teens and Privacy - How Gender Disparities, Religion and Family Values Impact the Privacy Design Space

Mustafa,

Asad,

Hassan

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

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The understanding of how teenagers perceive, manage and perform privacy is less well-understood in spaces outside of Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic countries.To fill this gap we interviewed 30 teens to investigate the privacy perceptions, practices, and experienced digital harms of young people in Pakistan, a particularly interesting context as privacy in this context is not seen as an individual right or performed within an individualistic framework but instead is influenced by a combination of factors including social norms, family dynamics and religious beliefs. Based on our findings, we developed four personas to systematize the needs and values of this specific population and then conducted focus groups with co-design activities to further explore privacy conflicts. Among other things that confirm and extend existing theories on teen's privacy practices and perceptions, our findings suggest that young women are disproportionately impacted by privacy violations and the harms extend beyond themselves to include their families. CCS CONCEPTS• Security and privacy → Human and societal aspects of security and privacy.

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“…From its inception, HCI has placed the human user central to its analysis to the point that the fourth wave of HCI emphasizes the ethics of designing for/with the other. Within this emerging space, there is the recognition of how the secularization of computing research alongside modernist scientific values might reinforce a particular way of designing/ and engaging with interactive systems [18,27,35,43]. This is an ethical issue that necessitated recent efforts towards a post-secular perceptive in HCI [3]; the question is to what extent can HCI, design, and computing become de-secularised?…”

Section: Ethics Of Computing Research -From Secular To Faith-based Ap...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result of the secularization of science and technology studies, dominant political views such as scientific rationalism and universalism relegated religious values to the background of computing research, which ultimately impacts the framing of the user, the logic of design, the metaphor of interaction and embodiment, and the discourse of digital innovation. This is an issue that has begun to receive considerable attention across HCI and design, particularly by showing how the design and adoption of computing systems are implicated by faith-based cultures, values, and norms [27,35,[41][42][43].…”

Section: Ethics Of Computing Research -From Secular To Faith-based Ap...mentioning

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"\"Remembering” as a Decolonial Praxis in African HCI and Design"

Adamu,

Nkwo

2023

Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference

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The fourth wave of HCI sought to engage with the ethics, politics, and values of design as an engine of modernity/coloniality. In doing so, we've witnessed a series of critiques and reflections on how the broadening of context and application in the third wave does not equate to any substantial structural changes in the ontologies and epistemologies informing HCI research and design. This can be attributed to the inevitable chaos of multiplicity inherent in HCI -and issues that we reckon could further implicate the efforts towards politicizing design as applied in the context of Africa. In this conceptual paper, we take the politics of design to another level by integrating distinct religious and sociopolitical practices across Africa in showing the colonizing dimension of the entirety of modern design enterprise. We argue that remembering the onomatopoeic dynamic of Amun-RA and the Ekumeku -both as theological thoughts and political praxis that are situated in African traditions -could provide a powerful instrument for 'asking questions' and 'forming conversation' on how technology can be developed and evaluated in/from African communities. Building on this year's theme of 'beyond limit', this study showcases how decolonizing African design entails, on an abstract level, a decolonisation of the imagination. To go beyond colonially imposed limits in computing research and design, we ought to remember our histories and cultures clearly, there is a designerly power in remembering.

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Integrating Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in HCI

Cited by 22 publications

References 22 publications

No More “Solutionism” or “Saviourism” in Futuring African HCI: A Manyfesto

No More “Solutionism” or “Saviourism” in Futuring African HCI: A Manyfesto

Pakistani Teens and Privacy - How Gender Disparities, Religion and Family Values Impact the Privacy Design Space

"\"Remembering” as a Decolonial Praxis in African HCI and Design"

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