@inproceedings{markum2024mediating,
 abstract = {Tangible artifacts and embodied experiences are central to religious and spiritual (R/S) practices, and many HCI researchers and interaction designers highlight the importance of materiality and physicality in design. In this review paper, we bring these perspectives together and examine 44 examples of R/S tangible interactive artifacts (TIAs) from academia, art, industry, and R/S communities to understand their specifics and guide future HCI research and design. We analyze these artifacts and map out a design space for R/S TIAs by matching identified characteristics of R/S TIAs with a framework from the study of material religion. The descriptive and generative R/S TIA Design Space covers insights into bodies, things, places, practices, and backgrounds. This paper offers a novel contribution to HCI research on the value and importance of tangibility and embodiment in technology-mediated practices in R/S contexts and serves as a source for future R/S TIA creation and research.},
 added-at = {2025-04-21T21:58:56.000+0200},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 articleno = {5},
 author = {Markum, Robert B. and Wolf, Sara and Claisse, Caroline and Hoefer, Michael},
 biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2bf82b1b3e5a034ae925fd71b3e068948/wolfssara},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction},
 doi = {10.1145/3623509.3633353},
 interhash = {b3d8f7b893f7ce8e849b3b86fe69f887},
 intrahash = {bf82b1b3e5a034ae925fd71b3e068948},
 isbn = {9798400704024},
 keywords = {myown},
 location = {Cork, Ireland},
 numpages = {22},
 publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
 series = {TEI '24},
 timestamp = {2025-05-19T20:56:59.000+0200},
 title = {Mediating the Sacred: Configuring a Design Space for Religious and Spiritual Tangible Interactive Artifacts},
 url = {https://publications.wolf-research.com/2024-tei-rs-design-space.pdf},
 year = {2024}
}