Despite its importance for well-being, spiritual care remains under-explored in HCI, while the adoption of technology in clinical spiritual care lags behind other healthcare fields. Prior work derived a definition of "spiritual support" through co-design workshops with stakeholders in online health communities. This paper contributes: (1) a revision of that definition through member checking with professional spiritual care providers (SCPs); (2) a novel design framework -- SPIRIT -- which can help to expand models of delivery for spiritual care using digital technologies. Through re-analysis of previous data and new interviews with SCPs, we identify three prerequisites for meaningful spiritual care: openness to care, safe space, and the ability to discern and articulate spiritual needs. We also propose six design dimensions: loving presence, meaning-making, appropriate degree of technology use, location, degree of relational closeness, and temporality. We discuss how SPIRIT offers guidance for designing impactful digital spiritual care intervention systems within and beyond clinical settings.

翻译：尽管灵性关怀对福祉至关重要，但人机交互领域对其探索仍显不足，且临床灵性关怀中的技术应用滞后于其他医疗保健领域。先前的研究通过与在线健康社区利益相关者进行协同设计研讨会，得出了“灵性支持”的定义。本文的贡献在于：（1）通过与专业灵性关怀提供者进行成员核查，修订了该定义；（2）提出一个新颖的设计框架——SPIRIT——该框架有助于利用数字技术扩展灵性关怀的提供模式。通过对先前数据的重新分析以及与灵性关怀提供者的新访谈，我们确定了有意义灵性关怀的三个先决条件：对关怀的开放性、安全空间，以及辨识和表达灵性需求的能力。我们还提出了六个设计维度：爱的临在、意义建构、技术使用的适当程度、地点、关系亲密度程度以及时间性。我们讨论了SPIRIT如何为在临床环境内外设计有影响力的数字灵性关怀干预系统提供指导。