Please note that the proceedings will appear closer to the workshop.
- Embodiment as Sociomaterial Factor in Empathic Agents
Matthias Schmidmaier and Sven Mayer - No Hard Feelings: The Protective Power of AI Empathy During
Interaction Failures
Ertugrul Uysal, Fotis Efthymiou, Jeffrey Brooks and Alex
Mari - Processed Empathy: How AI “Social Zombies” Hijack Human
Vulnerability
Ciaran O’Driscoll and Martin Dechant - From Imagination to Simulation: How Conversational AI
Reconfigures the Fantasy Dimension of Cognitive Empathy
Alina Alexandra Karl - The Aesthetics of Friction: Designing Empathic Technologies
for Reflective Behavior Change
Till Maria Jürgens and Matthias Laschke - Silent Connection: Silence as Empathic Care in
Conversational AI Design
Melika Vafafar, Sian Joel-Edgar, Hossein Dabbagh, Chee
Siang Ang and Casper Harteveld - Empathy as Mediated, Bounded, and Situated
in an AI Companion for the Emergency Department
Jacobe Klein, Peter Sörries, Yasemin Mutlugil and Claudia
Müller-Birn - A Sociomaterial Reframing of Empathy in Conversational
Virtual Humans
Anna Xygkou-Tsiamoulou, Alexandra Covaci and Jim
Ang - Affective Touch: Exploring Empathic Communication with
Visually Impaired Children
Lena Marcella Nischwitz, Philipp Samuel Fabritius, Giuseppe
Sanseverino and Lewis Chuang - Provocations for Empathy-Centric Design in End-of-Life
Planning
Ramprabu Thangaraj and Alisha Pradhan - Simulating the Ilegible and Diffuse: A Weird XR for
Materialising Empathy Without Essentializing Embodied
Experiences of Discrimination
Julia Himmelsbach, Lukas Kröninger and Diotima Bertel - Empathy Beyond Accuracy: Reinterpreting User Understanding
in the Age of Large Language Models
Jie Li and Katja Hölttä-Otto - Learning Experiences and the Emotions That Shape Student
Learning
Carina Ziegler and Isa Jahnke - Mental Health Chatbots: Effects of Empathic Tone on
Perceived Empathy and Trust
Mojgan Moshirpour, Mohammad Moshirpour and Qiao Sun - User-Led Storytelling with Generative AI Artifacts to
Promote Empathic Design
Tony Li and Steven Dow - emPLANThy: Exploring Interactive Plants for Neurodiverse
Empathic Experiences
Diana Pimentel, Isabel Neto and Tiago Guerreiro - Rehearsal For Ageing: Reimagining Empathy through Ageing
Preparation Using An Augmented Reality Visual Impairment
Simulation
Ximing Shen, Giulia Barbareschi, Chihiro Sato and Kouta
Minamizawa - From Galleries to Generators: Applying Museum Empathetic
Strategies to Reduce Confirmation Bias in Chatbots
Cassandra Kist - Prioritizing Therapeutic Alignment Over Simulated AI Empathy
Soraya Anvari and Rina Wehbe - Empathy at the Boundary: Sustainable HCI Research Practice
in Sensitive Contexts
Annalisa Degenhard, Jennifer Spohrs, Stefan Tschöke and
Enrico Rukzio - Who Cares? Rethinking Empathy in Chatbot Interaction
Alexandra Covaci and Boyd Branch