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Designing Ritual Artifacts for Technology-Mediated Relationship Transitions

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Diana Löffler,

Marc Hassenzahl,

Jörn HurtienneAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '20: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 349 - 361

https://doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3374937

Published: 09 February 2020 Publication History

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Rituals are ubiquitous but not commonplace, help people to make sense of their life, and cultivate personal or social meaning. Although secularization and digitalization impact the occurrence of formal rituals, the need for marking life's transitions remains unchanged. New rituals emerge, such as marking relationship status by hanging love locks on bridges. Tangible technologies hold great potential for augmenting, changing, or enhancing ritual practices which often involve enactments and symbolic props. In this paper, we analyze individual stories of hanging love locks and derive six pointers for designing technology-mediated relationship transition rituals. We applied the pointers in the design of El Corazón, a tangible artifact for relationship transition rituals. The results of an evaluation with 20 sweethearts show that relationship rituals can be designed deliberately, that tangibles can shape ritual experiences and that technology-mediated rituals can provide people with new means of coping with relationship uncertainty.

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Designing Ritual Artifacts for Technology-Mediated Relationship Transitions
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI theory, concepts and models

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