A practical pattern atlas
Receive prayer support without hidden profiling
Choose useful words or silence while retaining ownership of intentions.
The person asks for a prayer or opens a prayer experience.
Proposed flow
- Choose form
Offer attributed authored prayer, an editable draft or silence.
- Choose disclosure
Only use intentions deliberately supplied for this task.
- Review wording
Remove assumptions and adjust language or tradition.
- Read or listen
Playback does not request microphone access; voice input is separate.
- Finish
Save, share or set a reminder only through distinct choices.
Recovery and alternative routes
A refusal of personalisation still leads to a complete experience. Sensitive details must not become hidden memories, public summaries or notification previews.
What counts as a complete outcome
No promise of answered prayer, divine authorship or exclusive AI relationship.
Decisions within this flow
Prayer support preserves the person’s voice
Offer authored prayer, editable assistance or silence without impersonating divine response.
Proposed hypothesis24 · Audio and guided practiceListening is not microphone consent
Make playback, capture and AI conversation different states.
Research-informed design proposal28 · AI agency and careSensitive memory by permission
Make persistent memory specific, inspectable and reversible.
Research-informed design proposal35 · AI agency and carePrivate before shared
Let users inspect audience, content and AI suggestions before committing.
Research-informed design proposal42 · Habits and spiritual formationReminders under user control
Give people authority over timing, frequency and pauses.
Proposed hypothesis27 · AI agency and careSupport human connections
Keep quiet, exit and appropriate human support available.
Research-informed design proposal79 · AI agency and careIdentify what AI did, where it matters
Label the actor, action and artifact at the moment they could be misunderstood.
Research-informed design proposalEngagement facets to specify
Possible situations: Contemplation and prayer, Doubt, lament and life questions. These are overlapping task contexts, not fixed user categories.
Specify the chosen purpose, passage unit, pace, participation, social setting, interpretive task, environment and disclosure or teaching responsibility. Use the scenario framework.