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Designing for empathy in a church community

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Panagiotis MavrosAuthors Info & Claims

AcademicMindTrek '14: Proceedings of the 18th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Media Business, Management, Content & Services

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2676467.2676497

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Whilst empathy is considered an essential component of what makes us human, it is arguably absent as a specific design element when creating modern communications. As such, this paper presents an approach to designing for empathy. We consider how design interventions related to a personal ritual within a church community may be extended and augmented in order to allow the concerns of individuals to be shared more widely between community members. It is intended that these interventions will promote conversation and support within the community, thus generating empathy.

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AcademicMindTrek '14: Proceedings of the 18th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Media Business, Management, Content & Services

November 2014

316 pages

ISBN:9781450330060

DOI:10.1145/2676467

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Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN

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Markum RWolf SClaisse CHoefer MCiolfi LHogan TDöring TJenkins Tvan Dijk JHuron SLi ZCoyle DSigner B(2024)Mediating the Sacred: Configuring a Design Space for Religious and Spiritual Tangible Interactive ArtifactsProceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3623509.3633353(1-22)Online publication date: 11-Feb-2024
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Tuomala EBaxter W(2019)Design for Empathy: A Co-Design Case Study with the Finnish ParliamentProceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design10.1017/dsi.2019.131:1(99-108)Online publication date: 26-Jul-2019
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