Prajna Devi Upadhyay

Making the Sacred: Craft, Ritual, and Computational Imaginaries in Postcolonial HCI

Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) scholarship has begun to examine religion and spirituality; yet, devotion as a lived, material, and world-making practice remains largely overlooked. For millions across the Global South, devotional labor such as sculpting, tending to, or worshipping sacred figures forms a primary mode…