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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Dong, Y., Dong, H., & Yuan, S. (2018). Empathy in design: A historical and cross-disciplinary perspective. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Vol. 586, pp. 295–304). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60642-2_28
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