Sway Together, Stay Together: Visualizing Spiritual Support Networks through the SoulGarden Prototype

Avleen Kaur; C. Estelle Smith; Loren Terveen

doi:10.1145/3462204.3481774

Sway Together, Stay Together: Visualizing Spiritual Support Networks through the SoulGarden Prototype

Avleen Kaur, C. Estelle Smith, Loren Terveen

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Abstract

Spiritual support is a fundamental yet understudied dimension of support exchange in Online Health Communities. Recent work suggested that visualization of spiritual support networks offers a promising design mechanism for helping patients and caregivers navigate life-threatening physical or mental illnesses. Therefore, through user-centered and community-situated inquiry, we designed and developed SoulGarden-an interface that helps users visualize their spiritual support network in order to reduce loneliness and increase a sense of community and belonging. Initial feedback from user tests suggests that our nature-based theme provides users with feelings of calm and comfort, and that seeing the faces and prayers of supporters adds a meaningful sensory component to online support exchange. Our evaluation also suggests three valuable design considerations for future support network visualizations.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	84-88
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384797
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481774
State	Published - Oct 23 2021
Event	24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Oct 23 2021 → Oct 27 2021

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

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Conference	24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	10/23/21 → 10/27/21

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Kaur, A., Smith, C. E., & Terveen, L. (2021). Sway Together, Stay Together: Visualizing Spiritual Support Networks through the SoulGarden Prototype. In CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 84-88). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481774

Sway Together, Stay Together: Visualizing Spiritual Support Networks through the SoulGarden Prototype. / Kaur, Avleen; Smith, C. Estelle; Terveen, Loren.
CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 84-88 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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Kaur, A, Smith, CE & Terveen, L 2021, Sway Together, Stay Together: Visualizing Spiritual Support Networks through the SoulGarden Prototype. in CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 84-88, 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021, Virtual, Online, United States, 10/23/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481774

Kaur A, Smith CE, Terveen L. Sway Together, Stay Together: Visualizing Spiritual Support Networks through the SoulGarden Prototype. In CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery. 2021. p. 84-88. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). doi: 10.1145/3462204.3481774

Kaur, Avleen ; Smith, C. Estelle ; Terveen, Loren. / Sway Together, Stay Together : Visualizing Spiritual Support Networks through the SoulGarden Prototype. CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. pp. 84-88 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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