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EmpathiCH: Unravelling Empathy-Centric Design

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EmpathiCH is a full-day workshop at CHI ‘23 that includes participants’ presentations, two inspiring keynote talks, and a panel of experts.

Stimulated by this discussion, the expertise, and experiences of the participants will be combined during a participatory session to shape the future of the “Empathy Design at Scale” research agenda.

Important Dates

• Paper submission: February 23, 2023
• Notification of acceptance: March 6th, 2023
• Final revision deadline: Friday March 17th, 2023 AoE.
• Workshop day: April 23, 2023 in room Y07

Registration

We invite you to register for the workshop using the instructions found here.

Goal

We believe that there is a need to expand theories, novel assessment methods, and empirical studies to increase our understanding of empathy and support the human-centered design of technologies and services. In particular, we seek to:

• consolidate the existing theoretical and conceptual constructs of empathy from diverse domains including Psychology, Social Sciences, Design, and HCI,
• coalesce them to form a comprehensive and coherent framework that utilizes empathy as a new dimension of human-factors research and practice,
• scrutinize the seams of Empathy-Centric Design, specifically, the scenarios where it may come in conflict with human dignity, societal values and ethical principles (for example, instrumentalizing Empathy-Centric Design for large scale manipulation or abasement), and
• examine the overarching attributes of Empathy-Centric Design including its temporality and materiality.

Contact

Please direct any and all questions to Wo Meijer (w.i.m.t.meijer@tudelft.nl) or Luce Drouet (luce.drouet@uni.lu).

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