According to a new study conducted by northeastern university, humans say they show more empathy for man’s best friend than they would for battered humans. Participants were asked to read the article and rate their feelings of empathy toward…

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a virtual reality avatar that enables humans to empathise with cows destined for the slaughterhouse. “We were really interested in the theory of empathy,” said Joshua Bostick, a Stanford Universit…

Throughout my time reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I caught myself thinking about the recently emerging empathy games genre , and here’s why. Empathy games are games designed not to be fun, but to let “players” walk a mile in the shoe…

Empathy game designers don’t have massive teams or huge budgets, but that doesn’t stop them from making important, moving games. It’s difficult to write about the emerging genre of “empathy games” without dimming their liveliest…