According to the four students who created the project: “Traditionally, fiction creates and induces emotions and empathy through words and images.
By using a combination of networked sensors and actuators, the Sensory Fiction author is provided with new means of conveying plot, mood, and emotion while still allowing space for the reader’s imagination.”
An empathetic ear as a coach is more important than ever as life moves at a dizzying pace. I have wondered often how John Wooden the greatest coach of our generation would have handled coaching if he switched professions to our business. Even tho…
Tolstoy puts forth a sentiment Susan Sontag would come to echo decades later in asserting that “art is a form of consciousness,” and frames the essential role of art as a vehicle of communication and empathy:”In order correctly to define ar…
Love’s weapon against intolerance is empathy. It is a special weapon because it does not require that you personally know someone or care about them for you to “feel” their pain. It is a wiring that seems to be widespread enough …
Van der Ryn advocates for a movement towards “empathic design,” in which a designer not only works in concert with nature, but with an understanding of and empathy for the end user and for ones self. He stresses the need for all three connections in o…
