The EmpathiCH Workshop: Unraveling Empathy-Centric Design

2023. Luce Drouet, Wo Meijer, Aisling O'Kane, Aneesha Singh, Thiemo Wambsganss, Andrea Mauri & Himanshu Verma
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

EmpathiCH aims to bring together and blend a diverse set of expertise to develop a new research agenda in the context of “Empathy-Centric Design”. Building on the discussions that emerged in the previous edition, the main research objective is to form a comprehensive and coherent framework that utilizes empathy as a new dimension of human-factors research and practice. We aim to consolidate the existing theoretical and conceptual constructs of empathy from diverse domains to reflect on its temporality, materiality, and the risks related to its instrumentalization. With a mix of author panels, expert discussion, and interactive activities, we aim to make this workshop the ideal venue to foster collaboration, expand the community, and shape the future direction of “Empathy-Centric Design”.

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Citation

Drouet, L., Meijer, W., O'Kane, A. A., Singh, A., Wambsganss, T., Mauri, A., & Verma, H. (2023). The empathich workshop: unraveling empathy-centric design. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573796, doi:10.1145/3544549.3573796

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/3544549.3573796,
author = {Drouet, Luce and Meijer, Wo and O'Kane, Aisling Ann and Singh, Aneesha and Wambsganss, Thiemo and Mauri, Andrea and Verma, Himanshu},
title = {The EmpathiCH Workshop: Unraveling Empathy-Centric Design},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9781450394222},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573796},
doi = {10.1145/3544549.3573796},
abstract = {EmpathiCH aims to bring together and blend a diverse set of expertise to develop a new research agenda in the context of “Empathy-Centric Design”. Building on the discussions that emerged in the previous edition, the main research objective is to form a comprehensive and coherent framework that utilizes empathy as a new dimension of human-factors research and practice. We aim to consolidate the existing theoretical and conceptual constructs of empathy from diverse domains to reflect on its temporality, materiality, and the risks related to its instrumentalization. With a mix of author panels, expert discussion, and interactive activities, we aim to make this workshop the ideal venue to foster collaboration, expand the community, and shape the future direction of “Empathy-Centric Design”.},
booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
articleno = {366},
numpages = {7},
keywords = {assessment of empathy, attributes of empathy, collaboration, empathy, empathy-centric design, ethics of empathy},
location = {Hamburg, Germany},
series = {CHI EA '23}
}