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Plantimate: Personality Augmentation for Fostering Empathy Towards Plants

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Purav Bhardwaj,

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DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Our interactions with the ecosystems around us have devolved largely to anthropocentric, transactional and utilitarian modalities. Non-Human life forms, particularly plants and ecology are perceived as resources rather than a legitimate entity imbibed with life. The paper expounds on an ethical treatment of plants grounded in empathy. We establish this practice by creating anthropomorphic meaning around plants to generate compassion in participating human actors thereby employing it as a tool for conservation and meaningful co-existence.

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Plantimate: Personality Augmentation for Fostering Empathy Towards Plants
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Mixed / augmented reality

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DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

July 2020

605 pages

ISBN:9781450379878

DOI:10.1145/3393914

General Chairs:
Ron Wakkary
Simon Fraser University, CA and Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Kristina Andersen
Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Will Odom
Simon Fraser University, CA
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Audrey Desjardins
University of Washington, USA
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Marianne Graves Petersen
Aarhus University, DK

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Halperin BRosner D(2023)Miracle Machine in the Making: Soulful Speculation with KabbalahProceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563657.3595990(1740-1756)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563657.3595990
Fell JKuo PGreene TWang J(2022)A Biocentric Perspective on HCI Design Research Involving PlantsACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/351288729:5(1-37)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3512887
Cibin RRobinson SJ. Bidwell NLinehan CMaye LPantidi NTeli M(2021)Land, Water and SunProceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3461778.3462104(1954-1969)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461778.3462104

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