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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Designing for empathy in a church community
AU - Huck, Jonny
AU - Coulton, Paul
AU - Gradinar, Adrian
AU - Powell, Philip
AU - Roberts, Jennifer
AU - Hudson-Smith, Andrew
AU - De-Jode, Martin
AU - Mavros, Panagiotis
PY - 2014/11/6
Y1 - 2014/11/6
N2 - Whilst empathy is considered an essential component of our humanity, it is arguably absent as a design consideration when creating modern communications, where the focus is often one of speed and efficiency. However, as with all design attempts to promote a particular emotion, the inherent subjectivity means that it is best explored through practice based approaches. As such, this paper presents a research through design approach to designing for empathy, as a means of identifying some of the design sensibilities required to address such a challenge. We consider how design interventions to two currently personal rituals for reflecting upon prayers and worries within a church community in London may be extended and augmented in order to allow those prayers and worries to be shared more widely within the church community. It is expected that these interventions will promote conversation and support within the community, thus generating empathy between community members. From these designs we expect to be able to draw more general understandings about designing systems for empathy.
AB - Whilst empathy is considered an essential component of our humanity, it is arguably absent as a design consideration when creating modern communications, where the focus is often one of speed and efficiency. However, as with all design attempts to promote a particular emotion, the inherent subjectivity means that it is best explored through practice based approaches. As such, this paper presents a research through design approach to designing for empathy, as a means of identifying some of the design sensibilities required to address such a challenge. We consider how design interventions to two currently personal rituals for reflecting upon prayers and worries within a church community in London may be extended and augmented in order to allow those prayers and worries to be shared more widely within the church community. It is expected that these interventions will promote conversation and support within the community, thus generating empathy between community members. From these designs we expect to be able to draw more general understandings about designing systems for empathy.
KW - Empathy
KW - design
KW - church
KW - baptismal font
U2 - 10.1145/2676467.2676497
DO - 10.1145/2676467.2676497
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450330060
SP - 249
EP - 251
BT - AcademicMindTrek '14 Proceedings of the 18th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Media Business, Management, Content & Services
PB - ACM
CY - New York
T2 - Academic MindTrek Conference 2014
Y2 - 4 November 2014 through 6 November 2014
ER -