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It can be difficult to critically reflect on technology that has become partof everyday rituals and routines. To combat this, speculative and fictionalapproaches have previously been used by HCI to decontextualise the familiar andimagine alternatives. In this work we turn to Japanese Shinto narratives as away to defamiliarise voice assistants, inspired by the similarities between howassistants appear to 'inhabit' objects similarly to kami. Describing analternate future where assistant presences live inside objects, this approachforegrounds some of the phenomenological quirks that can otherwise easilybecome lost. Divorced from the reality of daily life, this approach allows usto reevaluate some of the common interactions and design patterns that arecommon in the virtual assistants of the present.

Does Siri Have a Soul? Exploring Voice Assistants Through Shinto Design Fictions