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From a historical and cross-disciplined perspective, this paper reviewed the evolvement of empathy in philosophical aesthetics, sociology and psychotherapy. Three aspects of ambiguities about empathy were summarized, namely, affection and cognition, subject-oriented and object-oriented perspective, and attitude and ability, based on which a system of coordinates was created to indicate three pairs corresponding problems of empathy in design research and practice. Through this system of coordinates, the authors wanted to build a reference for designers and researchers to deeper understand the subtle nature of empathy in design.
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The Chinese term ‘Gongqing’ means sharing emotion with others, while ‘Tongli’ refers to understanding the same.
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Dong, Y., Dong, H., Yuan, S. (2018). Empathy in Design: A Historical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. In: Baldwin, C. (eds) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 586. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60642-2_28
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