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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

A. Thieme, J. Vines, J. Wallace, R. Clarke, P. Slovak, J. McCarthy, M. Massimi, A. Grimes:
"Enabling empathy in health and care: design methods and challenges";
Talk: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada; 2014-04-26 - 2014-05-01; in: "CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems", ACM, New York, (2014), ISBN: 978-1-4503-2474-8; 139 - 142.



English 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.

German 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.

Keywords:
empathy, Health Care


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2559237

Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_236633.pdf


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