Understanding meditation and technology use
Katie Derthick · 2014
This paper presents findings emerging from an ethnographic study of meditators and meditation communities. The research goal is to explore decisions people engaging with meditation principles and practices make about technology use in everyday life, and why, in order to inform HCI theory and design. Emergent themes focus on how video chat is used for meditation, tensions around tracking meditation, information practices indirectly supporting meditation, and the quality of remote meditation teaching.