Abstract
The role of empathy has come to prominence in HCI as the community increasingly engages with issues in medical, health and emotionally charged contexts. In such settings empathizing with others is crucial in understanding the experience of living with specific conditions, or in being sensitive to the concerns and emotions of potentially vulnerable participants. Researchers in these areas become implicated in designing new tools and technologies that support empathic relations. This workshop therefore aims to build an interdisciplinary community of researchers, designers and practitioners to share and discuss their work and the challenges they encountered when establishing empathic relationships within health or care contexts. We will work towards developing a richer conceptual and practical understanding of empathic engagement and design methods in this context to support and shape an agenda for future research.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CHI EA '14 CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 139-142 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781450324748 |
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Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | 32nd Annual ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014 http://chi2014.acm.org/ |
Conference
Conference | 32nd Annual ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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Abbreviated title | CHI 2014 |
Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Toronto |
Period | 26/04/14 → 1/05/14 |
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